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Tatum Monod

until she was 12, (her parents didn’t want to push) but being born in Banff, Canada, to a veritable dynasty of Canadian skiers—her father was on the Canadian Ski Team and her grandfather was a Swiss mountain guide—it was only a matter of time before skiing took over her life. At 18, she entered a freeride competition in

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