LANDING UPHILL, ON ICE Glacier pilots make it look easy C BY MIKE COLLINS P H O TO G R A P H Y B Y T H E A U T H O R Chip Sonn peers from beneath a baseball cap, eyes squinting despite his dark sunglasses. He's all business as the red-and-white de Havilland Turbine Otter claws its way toward 10,500 feet msl. Above, a sunny sky has given way to bright white clouds. Below, the terrain-where it's not stark, nearly vertical rock-remains covered in seemingly featureless white snow. 70 | AOPA PILOT July 2018