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Billy Morgan took bronze in the inaugural Big Air event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang Watching professional snowboarder Billy Morgan peer over the edge of a dangerously wind-blown cornice, high above an untracked off-piste bowl, it feels reasonable to ask whether he has lost his mind. Maybe lockdown and months of being stuck at home in Southampton daydreaming have gotten to him. The adventure sports polymath, Red Bull athlete and first British man to medal on snow at an Olympic Games, is stood atop the fat lip of creaking snow, approaching the drop-off almost airily. He shifts a ...

Alpinist.com Also in This Style American Alpine Club announces 2021 Cutting Edge Grant winners Derek Franz Jess Roskelley, a 2018 Cutting Edge Grant recipient, is pictured here on Baba Hussein (5800m), Pakistan. [Photo] Kurt Ross, courtesy of the American Alpine Club The American Alpine Club (AAC) has announced this year's recipients of the Cutting Edge Grant: Nick Aiello-Popeo, Matthew Cornell, Ryan Driscoll, Sam Hennessey and Vitaliy Musiyenko will attempt objectives in Alaska and Nepal. Black Diamond is sponsoring the grant this year, and a total of $25,000 is being divvied up between the ...