Tele Mike Russell grew up as a sharecropper's son in Delaware, before attending college and becoming an executive in the pharmaceutical industry. Then he watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center and decided he'd better follow another path, this one to skiing in Colorado, where he'd go on to find a family in the National Brotherhood of Skiers.

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National Brotherhood of Skiers

Host: Adam Howard

Producer + Engineer: Mike Horn