Pioneering ski-mountaineer Christina Lustenberger on life in a ‘wildly dangerous space’

The Canadian is known for her first descents in some of the world's most hostile environments. She says confronting doubt is part of the process

After a pair of first descents near her home in the Canadian Rockies, Christina Lustenberger headed to Pakistan's Karakoram Range in April 2024 for her second attempt to ski the west face of the Great Trango Tower.

I'd seen a photo of the towers from a friend who climbed it," says Lustenberger, but no one had skied it."