Kit Deslauriers

Kit DesLauriers (b 1969) is a champion American skier and the first person to ski down the Seven Summits. She was born in Albany, New York and grew up in Westport, Massachusetts and Long Island, New York. Her grandfather built the first chairlift at Stowe Mountain in Vermont. By the time she visited Telluride, Colorado with her family during a ski vacation, she was already an avid skier, having fallen in love with the sport on her very first down... more

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