Cumbrian snowboarder in Alaska challenge
A winter sports athlete from Cumbria is setting off to snowboard down one of Alaska's highest mountains.
Julia Pickering will lead a team of seven - including husband Warwick - and a Newcastle-based TV documentary crew.
Experienced climber and snowboarder Ms Pickering will spend three days scaling the 15,000ft Mount Bear to spend an hour riding down "the white powder".
03 May 2012
- From the section England