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2 Women Skiers Tackle Sweden’s ‘Great Jagged Traverse’ — Alone

Kajsa Vickhoff Lie and Ida Sivander test themselves against one of Sweden's most iconic ridge climbs in this climb-and-ski adventure.

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In “Eager to Learn,” Norwegian World Cup alpine ski racer Kajsa Vickhoff Lie shares her “passion project” — completing one of Sweden’s most iconic ridge climbs. 

With her partner, Ida Sivander, the pro skier sets out to achieve her “vivid but distant dream” of climbing and skiing the Stora Syltraversen, otherwise known as “the great jagged traverse.”

“What we wanted to achieve is nothing exceptional,” Vickhoff Lie says in the vid. “Except for one fact: I and Ida were two women doing it by ourselves to find our own limit of what is possible.”  

If you love stories about mountaineering buddies supporting each other through badass adventures — you don’t want to miss this one. 

Runtime: 21.5 minutes

skiers ascending a mountain ridgeline

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