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Through the lens – Big Blue in White
“With the sun’s slow slide toward the horizon each winter, Tahoe transforms. The beaches are quietly abandoned. The boats hauled into storage. And then fat flakes of pure white fall from the sky, leaving one of…
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2018 Photo Annual
“We had this really big storm last season, probably the biggest storm I had ever experienced in the Sierra. It snowed seven feet and then rained. Then it snowed seven more feet on top of that.…
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Kashmir Calling – 2018 Photo Annual
Words: Andrew McLean | Photos: Ming Poon Download the PDF file .
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Chugach Silver Linings
Six Friends Seek First Descents and Adventure in the Chugach Mountains. Story and Photos by Ming Poon
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Roadless – On the trail with Jeremy Jones, Travis Rice, and Byran Iguchi
“If you had told me 10 years ago that I would be going on a 10-day splitboard mission, through one of the most remote regions of the continental United States with Bryan Iguchi, Jeremy Jones, and…
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Perspective Shift
How a Tahoe-based snowboarder swapped business for photography, as told by MING POON.
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The long road to Lhotse
Jim Morrison has experienced the heights of success as a skier and luxury home builder in Tahoe, but it was the perseverance to come back from unimaginable tragedy that led him to one of the world’s…
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Ming Poon: the Path from Beijing Businessman to Pro Photographer
Tahoe-based athlete and cameraman Poon applies the hard-work ethic he learned in China’s capital to his photography business. By Chris Van Leuven
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Where the peaks have no name
Home ranges are the great teachers. Some lessons are in your face—rocks hurt, stay away from cornices, respect avalanche conditions—but some are more subtle and take years to learn. They are life lessons that only come…
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