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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 mountain that is. Many people ...

Miners engineers, immigrants and soldiers spread skiing around the world. Meanwhile, Johann “Hannes” Schneider’s Arlberg ski teaching technique, made the standard by 1930, homogenized the sport ...

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 aristocrats betting on Viking ...

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 rankings at FIS competitions, in ...

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 handy. Ice skating snowmobiling and snowshoeing ...

The history of Olympic cross-country skiing is as much about Norwegian patriotism as the international games. When the sport first appeared as an international competition Norwegians worried their ...

How the British Association of Snowsport Instructors (BASI) is the governing body of both ski and snowboard instruction in the UK and is wholly responsible for the training and examination of British ...

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 with the development of the ...

For many the allure of the mountains is so great, that one or two week’s holiday a year is just not enough. If this sounds like you, why not move to the mountains for the winter? Every season, ...