Talk About Slippery Slopes
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âSteepâ is an undeniably impressive visual spectacle that follows the sport of extreme skiing.
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Travel: Nepal wants to ban nudity on Everest. The irony is that this is where trouserless-peaking started with George Mallory, claims regular naked climber Hank Wangford
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Tara Dakides is one of the most decorated and influential athletes at the Winter X Games, someone who can't walk through a ski resort without being recognized. She can thank David Letterman for that. What would have been just another appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman" last February turned into a media frenzy when the snowboarder went flying off a makeshift ramp outside the studio and fell onto the street below.
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By Matt Branaugh, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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Suddenly my life is awash in chicks. Chicks who rip. For all you right-on-the-edge-of-being-offended politically correct females out there, this phrase is the title of a magnificent little essay by Moira McCarthy in the January issue of Ski Magazine.
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For many able-bodied people, facing life after losing one or more limbs is hard to imagine. Facing ski slopes can be unimaginable. Yet Jessica Harney knows from experience how liberating and therapeutic the passion and freedom found in skiing can be for humans of all abilities.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 17--On the busy days at Turnagain Pass, the Chugach Mountains rumble with the roar of snowmachines.
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The fundamentals of snow sports, of course, are snow and equipment to slide on it. But to Herb Stevens, who is as passionate about golfing in spring and summer as he is about skiing in winter, the fundamental underpinnings of all outdoor sports is simple -- weather.
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This topic of discussion is usually reserved for spring in Vermont. All week, there has been much ado about mud in Massachusetts. If ever there was an example of media gone amok, it has been the seemingly endless discussion of how mucked up the turf at Gillette Stadium would become after being left naked in the night, subjected to the ...
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An Antarctic honeymoon, an iceberg, and questions about climate change.
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Recent avalanche related deaths in Utah have stirred the debate among backcountry skiers as to where to draw the line between free will and recklessness.
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Q. Our son, who is a good skier and will be 18 in November, wants to do an intensive residential ski-instructor course either in Europe, Canada or the US this winter during his gap year.
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Global warming threatens to cause violent weather conditions worldwide. Mount Qomolangma is no exception. Environmentalists say Mount Qomolangma, also known as Everest, should
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Informative videos about some unlikely topics pop up on YouTube.
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By A.C. Snow, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 18--The temperature was hovering around freezing when I spotted on Glenwood Avenue the vanity license tag reading "SKINAKED." A stick-in-the-mud like me could be forgiven for wondering if the driver had actually ever skied naked.
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Reward Russia with its first Winter Olympics? Take the games to a new Asian market in South Korea? Or return to the Austrian Alps for the first time in nearly 40 years?.
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Snowsports have always been about the newest and the coolest. These days a new question has proponents on both sides in the following argument: Are snowboards or free riding on twin tips the coolest way to hit the slopes?