EDITOR’S NOTE
“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. ”
– Edmund Hillary
JANUARY 2018. Issue 43. EDITORIAL/ART/ PRODUCTION EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Gordie Bowles ART DIRECTOR Agata Piskunowicz COPY EDITOR Christina Newberry SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER Paul Morrison SENIOR WRITER Michael Mastarciyan CONTRIBUTORS David Carlier, Giuseppe Di Mauro, Claire Challen, Thomas Camus, Dave Fonda, Grant Gunderson, Michael Mastarciyan, Paul Morrison, Christina Newberry, Edith Rozsa, Ryan Stuart, Steven Threndyle, Larisa Yurkiw.
THE ICONIC AND MYTHICAL MATTERHORN, THAT MAMMOTH OF A MOUNTAIN
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that is Switzerland’s most famous landmark, has owned photographers’ film canisters and
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Instagram feeds, as well as posters and chocolate labels, for many decades (less the feeds). The isolated and cragged rock peak provides the perfect backdrop and incentive for skiers, ski dreamers and alpinists the world over, while also possessing an aspirational allure that no other rock, big or small, can match. When artist Emil Cardinaux designed a tourism poster of the Matterhorn in 1908, he likely had no idea that it would become an iconic image that would open the floodgates of travellers to Switzerland. In this magazine, we have harnessed that aspirational attraction to find new sources of inspiration. In Over the Horizon, writer Ryan Stuart discovers that even though Verbier, Switzerland, and Courmayeur, Italy, are just across a valley from each other, the experiences are vastly different. In Majestic Matterhorn, former World Cup ski racer Larisa Yurkiw and
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photographer Paul Morrison went full luxury, discovering the posh life of Zermatt. And closer to home, writer Dave Fonda attempted to determine, once and for all, whether the resort town of Fernie, B.C., or Quebec’s Mont-Sainte-Anne should hold the honour of best resort experience. Our contributors, like the readers holding this magazine, are dreamers – motivated to explore, discover and be inspired, along the way noticing those symbols of steadfastness in
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Gordie Bowles, editor
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an ever-changing world.