In its simplest terms, alpine skiing is the type of skiing you'd probably describe if you were to try to tell a Martian about the sport. Technically, alpine skiing is just skiing downhill with your ...

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, ...

Long before the days of shredding pow or double backflips, skiing was used as a method of transportation. Dating back to 4000 BCE Norway, skiing was the most efficient way to move across snowy terrain ...

The creators of my favourite extreme downhill biking game, Descenders, went on to make an extreme snowboarding game, and now ...

To the traditional powers of alpine skiing — Switzerland, Austria and Italy — all this freestyling and halfpipe stuff is strictly New World. To them, a course, a clock and a mountain are challenge ...

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen made Alpine skiing history as he delivered Brazil's first-ever World Cup victory in a thrilling season-opening race at Levi on Sunday. Frozen in Time: Levi's farmed snow sets ...

For decades before and after Barnett’s classic treatise, the 75mm-wide pin binding reigned as the leading–essentially the only– binding of the telemark movement. Even as the sport’s footwear evolved ...

The downhill event features the fastest speeds and longest course, creating an exciting race from start to finish. Racers often will hit speeds upwards of 80 miles per hour or higher, depending on the ...