For the most skilled and daring downhillers, ski resorts are way too tame. What real powderhounds want are steep peaks, deep snow – and a helicopter to make it all accessible. Klondike Heliskiing is happy to accommodate.

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Based in tiny, mountain-ringed Atlin, B.C., just kilometres from the Yukon border, the company is the only heli-skiing operation in Northern Canada. For $7,500 a week it gives guests 45 heli-ski runs (the equivalent of some 30,000 metres of heart-pounding downhill) plus room and board. The accommodations aren’t posh – a fact that suits the mostly European clientele just fine. “Our people are skiers, not lifestyle people,” says Leo Steiner, an Austrian who founded the company with his father in 1995.

Steiner says his company’s big draws are Atlin’s pristine slopes, its compelling Northern environment, and – in this age of global warming – a relatively long ski season.

But if you want to catch some turns from aboard one of Steiner’s choppers, you’d better act fast. Between wealthy adrenaline junkies, professional downhillers and film crews, Klondike Heliskiing is nearly booked solid from February to May.