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A Guide to Living a Mountain Life
Whether you’re a city dweller, a beach side resident or a country lover, you may have considered at some point the thought of packing up and moving upwards - up a...
A Guide to Snow Blading
Snowblading is increasingly gaining status as a popular alternative to alpine skiing. The sport uses shorter skis, roughly one meter in length. Many describe it as...
A Guide to Taking Photographs on Your Ski Break
Most skiers have happy memories of past ski breaks, particularly those trips taken with family friends. Taking photographs on your ski break is a...
Alpine Skiing Around The World
Miners engineers, immigrants and soldiers spread skiing around the world. Meanwhile, Johann “Hannes” Schneider’s Arlberg ski teaching technique, made the standard by...
Alpine Skiing From the Beginning
While the Egyptians were building the pyramids, cave drawings depicted ski-shod hunters in the Arctic rim. Around 1000 A.D., Icelandic poetry, known as Eddas, alluded to...
Alpine Skiing in The Olympics
Every season scores of children learn to ski almost as soon as they walk. By age 15 junior racers around the world are vying for positions on national ski teams and...
Alternative Snow Sports - Snowler Blading and Bike Skiing
Sometimes when we take a week’s holiday at a resort our legs cannot handle as much skiing as we think. This is where alternative snow sports come in...
History of Cross Country in the Olympics
The history of Olympic cross-country skiing is as much about Norwegian patriotism as the international games. When the sport first appeared as an...
How to Become a Ski Instructor
Here in the UK, if you want to become a qualified ski instructor, you need to contact the British Association of Snowsport Instructors (BASI). It is the governing body...
The History of Snowboarding
There is no way to pinpoint exactly where or when the first snowboard appeared or who made it. In snowboarding’s 50 year history, there have been many people involved...
Working a Winter: A Guide to Doing a Season
For many the allure of the mountains is so great, that one or two week’s holiday a year is just not enough.
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