Heli-Skiing's Potent Pleasure // Powder Addicts Fly To Brave Dangers In Canada's Rockies

Chicago Sun-Times | January 31, 1993| | Copyright

BLUE RIVER, British Columbia They call it one of life's greatest thrills - skiing atop the mountain vastness of western Canada, carving a series of turns in a carpet of fluffy snow stretching thousands of feet below.

Just ask decathlete Bruce Jenner, singer John Denver and King Juan Carlos of Spain.

They are among a growing number of powder addicts eager to pay as much as $3,900 ($5,000, Canadian) weekly to be whisked up by helicopter to virgin Rocky Mountain slopes, far from the crowded lifts and packed trails of conventional ski resorts.

"Heli-skiing is spectacular. Nothing else in ...

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