Career
Kasha has skied since she could walk and began telemark skiing as a teenager. Her passion for skiing and traveling has been the driving force behind most of her adult life. She began traveling at age 19, leaving college to explore Africa.
She then headed to Colorado, where she became involved in telemark racing and extreme-skiing competitions.
Kasha joined The North Face Ski Team in 1995 and has since brought her skis all over the United States., Canada, South America, New Zealand, Russia, Asia, Europe, India and even the Middle East, skiing first descents of some of the world"s most revered peaks, including the Five Holy Peaks in Mongolia. Outside magazine credited her as being: "the best female telemark skier in the known universe", when she appeared on the cover of Women Outside in Fall 1998
Climb and ski descent of Choy Oyu 26,907 ft (8201m) (credited as the first telemark descent)
Mongolia Women"s Ski Expedition: first ski descents of the Five Holy Peaks in Tavan Bogd (including Kuitan, the highest peak in Mongolia)
Mountain.
Waddington Ski Expedition: descent of Mountain. Waddington and Combatant Couloir, British Columbia
Yukon Territories to Dry Bay, Alaska, ski exploration, accessed from the Tatshenshini River
Hannuman Tibba Women's Expedition: first ski descent of RFHP, a 2500m couloir in the Himachal Pradesh region of India
Kamchatka Women"s Ski Expedition: First ski descent of Mountain.
Udina & Mountain. Zimina, as well as the first female ski descent of Mountain.
Tolbachik (all telemarked)
Lebanon Ski Expedition: ski descent of Qornet as-Sawda, 3090m, traverse of the Mountain. Lebanon Range
Mountain. Belukha: ski exploration and descent of the highest peaks in Siberia (photos)
Cotopaxi (5897m) and Chimborazo (6310m) Volcanoes of Ecuador: ski descent of world’s highest active volcano
Multiple First Descents along Gibb"s Fjord, Baffin Island
Ski and kite Greenland
21 peaks in 21 days Bolivia
Trek of Frozen Zanskar River – Ladahk, India
1997 Scott Gaffney"s Breathe
1999 Higher on the Mountain
2001 Warren Miller"s Cold Fusion
2001 Transworld Television: Ski Nomads: A Traverse of Lebanon
2001 OLN Adventure Series Mystery Mountain
2004 Incognito: Total Telemark 4
2006 Shelter from the Storm
2009 Edge of Never
2015 Ultimate Survival Alaska, Season 3.
