Outstanding: that’s the world to describe the first ski descent of the Great Trango Tower (6,286m), a Karakoram peak best known for its big walls. An impressive achievement on a hanging glacier and steep, narrow slopes, the result of the persistence of two Canadian women, Chantel Astorga and Christina Lustenberger, and American Jim Morrison, for whom skiing the Great Trango Tower is “a crazy dream come true.“
This is no April fool’s joke. The Great Trango Tower, a granite cathedral perched high above the Baltoro, saw three skiers launch themselves from its summit on the 9th of May, 2024. A complex group of bigwalls, some of the highest in the world, the Great Trango Tower (not to be confused with the Nameless Tower, sometimes referred to as Trango Tower) did not seem to be an ideal terrain for a ski descent, even one as ambitious as this.