The sky is the limit for Vogue darlings Lily Donaldson, Coco Rocha, Caroline Trentini and Anna Jagodzinska. Steven Meisel sends the well heeled foursome on a rock climbing adventure in the latest issue. Clad in chubby furs and lethal sky high platforms the girls make mountaineering look stylish – even when they’re dangling from the edge of a cliff. After all modeling is an extreme sport.

Caroline Trentini, Coco Rocha, Anna Jagodzinska and Lily Donaldson by Steven Meisel for Vogue US

This month Vogue looks among its own staffers for editorial inspiration with the divine Karen Elson portraying Vogue’s own flame haired mainstay, Grace Coddington. The witty Steven Meisel images wink at Coddington’s love of cats (she and her partner, hairstylist Didier Malige have 5) and put Karen’s chameleon ability to the test.

Karen/DNA, Viva Paris, Independent London, Beatrice Milan