Powder magazine‘s December issue just hit newsstands, and the cover is striking, to say the least. It’s all black except for some snow-capped mountains that barely break the bottom of the page and a cover line that reads “Why do the best skiers keep dying?” In the video below, Powder’s edit team talks about how they came up with the design. Click play to watch the video, and click here to purchase a digital issue of Powder to read the cover story.