I first met Ptor Spricenieks during the dirtbag days of Chamonix in the early ‘90s. We were living near each other in abandoned for-est lean-tos and getting after it on all the big ski mountaineering objectives in the valley. Eventually we started seeking out new, un-tapped mountain ranges in places like South America and India, places that had very little interest to foreign skiers at the time. Here Spricenieks takes a smoke break with porters in the Jagatsukh Valley, India in May 2004. Fading light in the Jackson Hole, WY back-country in January 2014. Laurent De Martin lined up this jump as the day was wrapping up and this POV angle really showed the expo-sure of the cliff and De Martin’s beautiful style.
The Ski Journal Volume 15, Issue 2: Page 82
