Ever wonder what motivates Alison and Zoe to venture to the limits of human endurance to document climate change? Or about the lives, culture and tradition of the Balti people? Or how Alison and Zoe, two American women, are being treated in Pakistan? Heck -- even what technologies they're using to beam back photographs and video each day via satellite?

Here's your chance to ask them yourself!

Send your questions via email, or comment to this post with a question, and we'll pass them on to the team, who will answer a few of them on camera in a future vlog.

Thanks for taking the journey with us!

Team Bios

Alison Gannett (Professional Skier, Environmental Advocate) is a world champion freeskier from Crested Butte, Colorado. She has earned many world titles including World Cup Freeskiing Champion, the South American, Japanese, and Triple Crown Championships, Gravity Games Medalist, Film Star of the Year, and Freeskier of the Year. She is featured in many ski films including titles produced by Warren Miller, Teton Gravity Research, and Matchstick Productions. A ski mountaineer at heart, she has organized, filmed, photographed, and authored several ski mountaineering expeditions, including the first descent of the northwest face of Hanuman Tibba in the Himalayas, the first ski expedition to Bhutan, and the first historic women's retrace of Mont Blanc. Her real passion is making a difference in this world. She is a career environmentalist, graduating Magna Cum Laude with Honors from University of Vermont. She is President of the Save Our Snow Foundation, has worked with the Office of Energy Conservation, studied and taught at Solar Energy International and has trained with Al Gore.

Zoe Hart (Professional Mountain Guide) finished a degree in English Literature from Boston College and moved west to pursue climbing and guiding. Zoe has come a long way from her childhood in suburban New Jersey. Zoe has climbed and guided full time around the world. From ski-mountaineering and climbing in Chamonix France, which has become her second home, to rock climbing in the UK, to Ice and Alpine adventures in the Canadian Rockies, spring seasons in Alaska, winters in South America, and much more, Zoe is reputed to be the perpetual transient. In the summer of 2005 Zoe passed her AMGA Alpine Guides exam becoming the second of only three women currently certified in the United States. In February of 2006 Zoe finished her final AMGA course becoming certified as an International Aspirant guide, allowing her to work throughout the world. She hopes to become one of the few women to be certified by one of the top international guiding associations UIAGM within the next year.

Curt Dowdy (Producer/Director/Cinematographer) has a passion for living and telling intimate, real-world stories of high adventure, environmental advocacy and world cultural linkages. Having been in a lead role as a producer on multiple feature motion pictures and documentary films, Curt debuted as a documentary director with the award-winning High Ambitions in the Himalaya. In the making of High Ambitions, Curt climbed to 8000 meters (26,000 feet) altitude to capture the story of 61-year old Australian climber John Taske. That event represented Taske’s first return to the world’s highest mountains after surviving the ill-fated Mt Everest expedition documented in Jon Krakauer’s best-selling book Into Thin Air. Having spent a previous career as a Silicon Valley technology company executive, Curt also enjoys exploring new methods behind the scenes to capture stories and reach audiences in exciting ways. Curt is based in Los Gatos, California.

Bill Stevenson (Outdoor and Sports Photographer) is a dedicated climber, skier, and all around outdoorsman and has traveled, camera in hand, to the mountains and landscapes of Nepal, Pakistan, Alaska, Canada, and the American west, including climbing trips to some of the world's highest mountains. His outdoor skills give him access to photographic locations accessible to few others. He relentlessly pursues the best locations, unusual and intriguing natural light situations, and some of the most interesting sports action by some of America's best athletes. Bill hails from Lake Tahoe, California.