A mountaineer and seasonal skier kept his wits about him as an unexpected snow avalanche swept him down a mountain.
Launching oneself from a chairlift attached to a hot air balloon 6 500 metres in the sky, pirouetting in the air, skydiving, and then landing on a mountainside to ski takes both skill and planning.
Finnish skier Remi Lindholm ended his Beijing Winter Olympic debut on Saturday with damage to his, erm, equipment.
South Africa’s only ski and snowboarding resort was gearing up for a bumper winter before the COVID-19 pandemic laid waste to those plans.
If you’re planning a ski trip to France, you might want to check in and see if any powder awaits you upon arrival.
Gwyneth Paltrow is facing a £2,37 million lawsuit following a hit and run skiing crash, which left a man seriously injured.
Watch as a helicopter from the Peloton de Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne (French Mountain Police) shows off some pretty remarkable skills.
If you’re gearing up for a visit up north for a skiing holiday, or plan on doing something daring around this neck of the woods, here’s something to mull over.
On the south-facing plateau of Georgia’s Caucasus mountains, a ski lift malfunctioned and caused absolute havoc. Seriously, this is straight out of a horror movie.
Avalanches aren’t for the faint of heart, and Spanish snowboarder Alfons Garcia knows all about that. He needed every inch of his skills to escape this scenario.
If you were one of those South Africans that spent a season abroad finding your snow legs (and drinking shots to keep warm), this new doccie might interest you.
If you’ve ever gone skiing or snowboarding you’ll know it’s not easy to fly through the air, but this 18-year-old Swiss chap makes it look easy.
Strap on your virtual skis and get ready for one helluva ride, this skier taking on the might of the Matterhorn and living to tell the tale.
Check out this epic fall from a skier who, dropping 1 600 feet in under a minute, was able to say “I’m okay.”
The folks up at Tiffindell will be loving our weather at the moment as snowfall has covered the resort and made it look positively Alpine.
So this crazy Slovenian man just made ski jumping history when he smashed the world record for longest jump. Seriously, all he is missing is a cape.
This just goes to show that if you are doing something even remotely rad, you should have a video camera of sorts with you because life happens.
There were weather warnings in parts of the US earlier this week, and wow did they live up to their expectations. This drone shows everything, and it’s amazing it didn’t freeze mid-flight.
Michael Schumacher has had a very tough 2014, but as he slowly wakes up, so more information about his ski accident comes to light.
Team Devin Supertramp raised the stakes with their latest extreme effort, which involved airplanes, speedboats and a lot of barefoot waterskiing.
Watch this incredible Italian with a couple of planks strapped to his feet, clad in latex, go at a speed the average car doesn’t even reach. On Monday, Simone Origone beat the world record for speed skiing, clocking in at 252.454km/h, at the French ski resort Vars.
If you, like me, aren’t exactly an impressive athletic specimen, then this is the closest you’re likely to come to knowing what it feels like to ski down an Olympic-level piste. Graham Bell does know what it feels like. In fact, he knows what it feels like to ski down that course holding a camera. Because he’s a badass.
French newspaper L’Equipe has reported that Michael Schumacher is waking gradually from his artificially induced coma and is responding positively to treatment. The seven-time F1 champion has been in a artificial coma since 29 December, and has started the phase of gradual awakening this week. However, after five weeks in a medically induced coma, there are […]
North Korea, a country that can barely keep its citizens fed, has just opened a lavish new ski resort.
Ridiculous, in a good way. Here’s a little something to get you onto the workday hom stretch. What we have here is a short insert from the full length ski doccie, ‘Valhalla’. There doesn’t seem to be any rationale behind this, other than an expression of the joy of skiing. And being naked. And being naked and skiing.
Because North Korea’s supreme leader, Kim Jung Un, thinks what his country really needs right now is not more food or electricity, but a multimillion dollar ski-resort, construction has begun on the Masik Pass ski resort.
North Korea is extremely angry at Switzerland, because the land of watches, Cuckoo clocks and chocolate refused to sell the tiny nuclear dictatorship a line of ski lifts for a much-publicised ski resort. Here’s the BBC: The equipment – which included chair lifts and cable cars – was for the Masik ski resort project which […]
New Tiffindell Is Ready To Open For The Winter Season
Not to be outdone by Cape Town local, Dec’io Lourenc’o in the huge balls department, Sverre Liliequist backflipped on to an avalanche while skiing down the face of a mountain. Just because, you know. Street cred. Or something, I don’t know what would compell someone to do that. Don’t ask me. Competing in the Big Mountain […]