DUNE A look into a world without snow

With a warming planet, and if radical action isn’t taken to combat climate change, ex-competitive freestyle skier, adventurer and travel filmmaker WADE HOLLAND takes a look at what snowsports may look like in the future – by backpacking, hiking and skiing his way through the highest sand dune national park in North America…

Photographed by CONNOR TIEULIE/SHANDREW PR

Every skier lives for face shots. Face shots of that crisp, fluffy, buttery, white stuff. Face shots that send grown-ups back into their childhood selves with hoots and hollers. Face shots that transform men and women into complete animals! Hounds; local legend powder hounds! But what if, in the near future, we completely lose that? What if someday we’re living in a world where that fluffy white stuff gets replaced by SAND?! Tragically, that dystopian future might not be as far off as you think. The facts are there: the Earth is warming at alarming rates. June 2021 was the hottest month in recorded history in North America, and just last month Sicily reported a temperature of 48 degrees Celsius, making that the warmest temperature recorded in Europe EVER. While summers…

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MAXIM New Zealand (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2023

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