Michael “Bird” Shaffer descends from the North Face of Chamonix’s Ai-guille du Midi. He learned to ski these lines with a speed wing from Gaby Van der Steen, one of the pre-eminent female speed riders in the early 2000s, renowned for her ability to make graceful turns on technical steep lines while maintaining a wing overhead.
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