How can skiing down a mountainside with crevasses everywhere and dangerous conditions be safer than climbing down?
Nettle: If you’ve gotta cross a freeway, are you going to walk or run? Speed is your friend. Garre: He nailed it. Nettle: And with skiing your weight is more distributed. Garre: It’s so much faster and quicker. MI: You’ve both been on expeditions all over the world, including Pakistan. What was it like for you to be in that country? Garre: A friend of mine had been in China and had the worst experience. Then he went to Pakistan and had the best experience. People in Pakistan were genuinely nice. People in the mountains were amazing. You are worried at times. We had a curfew once in Islamabad. … The women on the expedition were uncomfortable at first, but they got salwar kameez [traditional clothing] to wear and it was fine. Even in Islamabad, there was no tension. Nettle: I was in Pakistan in 2007 and there was no animosity. MI: Kip, you travel all over the world to ski and take on these huge expeditions, but you don’t really have big sponsor deals and haven’t chased the money and the
