Enjoying perfect weather at the Columbia Icefields and Athabasca Glacier! With ubiquitous images of beaches and sun so often being associated with vacations, it is such a pleasure to spend time with people who really love snow and everything the mountains have to offer! I have just concluded a rather in-depth journey through my Canadian Rockies with an enthusiastic group of well-travelled visitors. They came for winter and indeed that is what they found… Two male elk butting

Who would have guessed that a Brazilian would be so thrilled to spend winter in sub-zero temperatures sliding down the mountains on skis? In order to understand my passion for this icy world, we will have to go back over two decades. I I began rock climbing in 1991, in native city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio is widely known as the best place in the world for urban climbing, with big walls and multi-pitch climbs within the city boundaries. Five years later, I south to Baril