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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dan Egan’s respect for the way mountains can turn cranky and ill-tempered, as they did this year with avalanche-prone conditions stretching across Utah and most of North America, runs deep. During his ...

Competitive freeride skiing looked a lot different in the early 1990s. At the 1992 World Extreme Skiing Championships (WESC), competitors donned one-pieces (who needs waterproof gear when you have a ...

LAC LA BELLE, MI – Michigan’s Mount Bohemia is set to open for the 2024 season. Staff at the all-natural snow mountain in the Upper Peninsula’s remote Keweenaw Peninsula announced this week that they ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of a series, in honor of International Women’s Month, that shines a spotlight on the dynamic women of Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley. Skiing pioneer Kim Reichhelm ...