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Yuichiro Miura set the world speed skiing record at Italy's Kilometer Lanchard in 1964, only to see it broken the next day. Akira Kotani On the afternoon of May 6, 1970, Yuichiro Miura stood on Mount ...

MOUNT CRESTED BUTTE – “This place brings back some memories,” says Wendy Fisher, gazing up at the near vertical walls of snow and rock she just skied. “Doesn’t it though,” says Rex Wehrman, pointing ...

Sylvain Saudan, who has died aged 87, was a Swiss extreme skier known as the “skier of the impossible” for his steep and solo descents of big mountain faces around the world. It was in 1967 that ...

BEIJING — There’s the raw speed of the 100-meter dash, the heart-pounding instant when a figure skater lands a triple axel, the gymnastics routines that seem to defy gravity. The marquee Olympic ...

LEADVILLE, Colo. >> Nick Burri clicks into his ski bindings, squats to stretch his knees and scans the snowy race course. Moments later, he’s zipping past a series of gates at high speed and hurtling ...

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, ...

MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. (AP) — On a postcard spring Saturday in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, a boisterous band of pilgrims some 2,000 strong is preparing for their own brand of funky and fearless ...

CONWAY — With slopes ranging from 40 to 55 degrees, Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington was a great training ground for Caite Zeliff, who graduated to even steeper slopes and in doing so, to being ...

For seasoned skiers, planning a winter holiday is often a delicate, and sometimes contradictory, art. If you’ve had your fill of perfectly manicured groomers, frictionless laps just don’t scratch the ...

“Extreme skiing VR” is a sports game with multiplayer networking aiming at massive sports amateurs. When playing the game, players need to handle a hand shank to stimulate the ski pole and use skills ...