Twin Freaks: On High-Altitude Skiers the Marolt Brothers
Twin Freaks: On High-Altitude Skiers the Marolt Brothers
A number of renowned ski mountaineers told me, without wanting their names to be used, that they resented the attention the Marolts had received for their exploits—or, more to the point, the attention the Marolts had sought out. The criticism is that the Marolts ski (and climb) unremarkable, unstylish lines (“tourist routes,” as one put it), that they care less about summits than about altimeter readings, and that, above all, they make more of their feats than those feats merit. The fact that they’ve skied so often above 7,000 meters elicits a collective “So what?” from the sport’s elites, who favor first descents and technical derring-do. One of them told me, “All it proves is that they have more time and money to waste on trying to get one boring run.”

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