Skiing

An unseasonably warm winter in Europe threatens ski resorts, tourism

January 6, 2023Climate Change

Countries across Europe are experiencing unseasonably warm weather this January, causing a headache for ski resorts and broader concern for what it might mean for the year ahead.

Yoo In-sik in his repair shop in Seoul. Yoo was one of South Korea's first Winter Paralympians.

A Korean Paralympic skier says other skiers cheer him on now. It didn’t used to be that way.

March 9, 2018Sports

Atomic skis are seen at the company's headquarters in Altenmarkt im Pongau, Austria November 28, 2017.

With the Winter Olympics approaching, ski makers look to craft the perfect ski

January 2, 2018Sports

Matee Ullah Khan and members of his ski school at the Malam Jabba ski area in Pakistan's Swat Valley.

Pakistan’s only ski school is back in business, in the ‘Switzerland of Pakistan’

February 13, 2015Sports

The US SKI Team men wear armbands and tape on their helmets to honor Ronnie Berlack and Bryce Astle

The US Ski Team returns to the slopes a day after an avalanche kills two promising young skiers

January 6, 2015Sports

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Kelly Gallagher of Great Britain and guide Charlotte Evans in the Women's Super-G - Visually Impaired during day three of Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.

In Paralympic slalom racing, you are flying nearly blind — with your teammate

March 13, 2014Sports

Great Britain’s Kelly Gallagher won Paralympics gold at the Sochi Winter Games, with a victory in the visually impaired super-G. The 28-year-old from Northern Ireland and her guide Charlotte Evans use a bluetooth device to communicate and stay within a ski’s length of each other.

In Paralympic slalom racing, you are flying nearly blind — with your teammate

March 13, 2014Sports

Could these Canadian sisters sweep the freestyle skiing podium in Sochi?

February 3, 2014Sports

The three Dufour-Lapointe sisters will be gunning for gold this week in Sochi. All three made the Canadian women’s mogul team. What is it like to compete with – and against – your own sisters.

Downhill racer (and Sochi Olympics contender) Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway is airborne on his way down the challenging Streif ski track at the Hahnenkamm men's Alpine Skiing World Cup Downhill race in Kitzbuhel, Austria in 2012.

This is the most challenging downhill ski race in the world

January 24, 2014Sports

For male downhill skiers, it’s not quite time to focus on the Olympics. This weekend is the toughest race of the men’s downhill season, at the Streif track at Kitzbuhel, Austria.. It’s a downhill course with an incredible history, a history that makes it even dangerous.

Copenhagen power plant turned into ski resort

August 15, 2013Business, Economics and Jobs

Intrepid architects from Copenhagen are turning a power plant into a man-made ski hill, and creating a new kind of ‘hedonistic sustainability.’

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