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with Sam Smoothy (who’s written this issue’s cover story about skiing NZ’s 3,000m peaks) about how there’s no ski mountaineering in Australia. And yes, while he’s right, that doesn’t mean there’s no place in Oz for ski-mountaineering-oriented ice axes or