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Beyond Black: The World's Top 10 Unheralded Steeps
By Alistair Wearmouth

Part two of our roundup of the best in international extreme skiing, we teamed up with author Peter Oliver to profile the ten most inspiring unheralded extreme slopes on the planet. If you're looking for something more mainstream, check out our top ten list of the ski world's classic beyond-black slopes. Either way, we're pretty sure that somewhere among these 20 slopes you'll find a gauntlet to run and monster challenge to bag.

The best place to be on a bright, sunny day
Photo courtesy Moguls.com

If you're still not satisfied, check out world-champion skier Alison Gannett's expert stash. Sure, her five out-of-the-way favorites are a little harder to access, but if you're out there with all the right gear, the journey down should be as exhilarating as it was going up.

Unheralded Piste
1.	Extreme Limits, Crested Butte, Colorado	6.	The Ridge, Bridger Bowl, Montana
2.	Silver Fox, Snowbird Resort, Utah	7.	Primavera, Portillo, Chile
3.	The Highline Ridge, Taos, New Mexico	8.	Pinball, Crystal Mtn., Washington
4.	Alta Chutes, Jackson Hole, Wyoming	9.	Mont Fort, Verbier, Switzerland
5.	Face Bellevarde Couloir, Val d’Isère, France	10.	Hellbrook, Stowe, Vermont

And Now for Something Really Extreme
Five expert-only picks from Alison Gannett

Peter Oliver: Peter is a contributing editor of Skiing magazine and author of Endless Winter, featured in the 2003 Outside Traveler annual. Also the author of several books, he recently completed a coffee-table guide to the history of Stowe skiing, entitled Stowe: Classic New England. The book, with more than 200 photos, is published by Mountain Sports Press and is available for $49.95 from Barnesandnoble.com, Borders.com, and all good bookstores. Peter lives down the road from storied Mad River Glen, in Vermont.

Alison Gannett: Alison strives to tackle those things people say she shouldn't. A World Champion big mountain skier and travel addict, she also dabbles in green home consulting, ethno-botany, 24-hour solo mountain bike racing, yoga, surfing, women's steep-ski camps, and writing. She skis and works from her self-built Victorian straw home in Crested Butte, Colorado, with her cat, Terra, who has not yet blown down the house.