Heli-hike the untamed Canadian Rockies

Heli-hiking is the less well-known cousin of heli-skiing, where avid powder seekers are whisked to the top of remote mountains to enjoy freshly fallen snow and have the mountains all to themselves. What has caught on around the world was actually invented by Canadian Mountain Holiday’s founder, Hans Gmoser, in 1959.

He secured exclusive ski rights to remote national parks in Canada and began taking tourists to go skiing in the 1960s. CMH (canadianmountainholidays.com) has grown to have 12 lodges in 11 different areas in Canada, and is the premier option for heli-skiing in Canada. It was a natural extension to start offering heli-hiking in the summer months to utilize their beautiful mountain lodges and offer more people the ability to see mountains, valleys and glaciers that would normally take several days of back-country hiking to access.

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