Sylvain Saudan, who has died aged 87, was a Swiss extreme skier known as the “skier of the impossible” for his steep and solo descents of big mountain faces around the world. It was in 1967 that ...

Yuichiro Miura set the world speed skiing record at Italy's Kilometer Lanchard in 1964, only to see it broken the next day. Akira Kotani On the afternoon of May 6, 1970, Yuichiro Miura stood on Mount ...

“Extreme skiing VR” is a sports game with multiplayer networking aiming at massive sports amateurs. When playing the game, players need to handle a hand shank to stimulate the ski pole and use skills ...

Chairlifts, gondolas and trams are, understandably, a point of enormous fascination for many skiers. Aside from those who shirk ski resorts entirely, they’re fundamental to the skiing experience, ...

Last month, Ross Anderson (Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache) stood before a crowded room in the mountains of Utah. In his left hand, he held an eagle feather. Around his neck, there ...

CONWAY — With slopes ranging from 40 to 55 degrees, Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington was a great training ground for Caite Zeliff, who graduated to even steeper slopes and in doing so, to being ...

Competitive freeride skiing looked a lot different in the early 1990s. At the 1992 World Extreme Skiing Championships (WESC), competitors donned one-pieces (who needs waterproof gear when you have a ...

LEADVILLE, Colo. >> Nick Burri clicks into his ski bindings, squats to stretch his knees and scans the snowy race course. Moments later, he’s zipping past a series of gates at high speed and hurtling ...

For seasoned skiers, planning a winter holiday is often a delicate, and sometimes contradictory, art. If you’ve had your fill of perfectly manicured groomers, frictionless laps just don’t scratch the ...