Ski the Rockies

It doesn't get any better than this: fast, vast, and stunningly beautiful. From Taos to Banff, the rugged Rocky Mountains provide challenging slopes and awesome vistas, reproduced here in startling clarity.

Fast, vast, and stunningly beautiful, the Rockies contain some of the most popular skiing destinations in the world. Under conditions both harrowing and unpredictable, photographer Marc Muench captured the feel and thrill of this most exhilerating sport. Essays by four-time Harold Hirsch award-winner Peter Shelton put moguls on the slope. 130 photos.

Fast, vast, and stunningly beautiful, the Rockies contain some of the most popular skiing destinations in the world. Under conditions both harrowing and unpredictable, photographer Marc Muench captured the feel and thrill of this most exhilerating sport. Essays by four-time Harold Hirsch award-winner Peter Shelton put moguls on the slope. 130 photos. Tour.

Muench has made a career of capturing on film his emotional responses to his personal experiences.

Peter Shelton has been a contributing editor and columnist at "Ski" magazine (where he first wrote about the 10th Mountain Division), as well as a correspondent for "Outside" magazine since 1984. He lives in Montrose, Colorado.