New Ski Descent Unlocked on New Zealand's Highest Peak

As Christina “Lusti” Lustenberger and Guillaume “Gee” Pierrel slid towards the base of their first descent—called Hunter’s Moon—around 10:30 a.m., they reencountered something that, during the ascent hours earlier, had already proven tricky to navigate: a bergschrund.
These crevasses form as moving glacial ice shears away from static ice, forming deep chasms that sometimes plunge downwards for hundreds of feet. Lusti and Gee needed to find a way across,