“Skiers in Scotland are afraid of nothing.” The foreign visitor, quoted in Myrtle Simpson’s definitive book The Story of Scottish Skiing, could easily have been speaking today, as in the 1950s. “They ...

You might hear complaints that skiing today is nothing more than a fashion show, but, in reality, it’s long been that way. From the stretch pants of the 1950s to the one-piece suits of the 1980s, ...

“The sun is warm, the air spicy, the snow conditions perfect; it bids fair to be a memorable day skiing,” says the narrator of Skiing in the Swiss Mountains. Back before the snowboard was even ...