カテゴリー: Skiing
Polish athlete Andrzej Bargiel, 37, is the first person to climb up and ski down Mount Everest without bottled oxygen. It took him four days to ascend from base camp and two days to ski back down Polish climber makes history skiing down Everest without…
Friends and family fly in and Buddhist monks light pyre at funeral in Nepal of extreme skierA famed extreme skier from the United States who was killed after falling from one of the world’s tallest mountains was on Sunday given a traditional funeral at…
Operator at North Island’s Mount Ruapehu lays off 130 people, with expert saying climate crisis at least partly to blame for poor snow seasonAn unseasonably warm and wet winter, brought on in part by climate change, has left one of New Zealand’s most p…
Success of Chinese American skier should have been a positive story but geopolitics got in the wayGu soars to hat-trick of medalsUntil recently, the US-born freestyle skier Eileen Gu – or Gu Ailing as she is known in China – was one of the rising numbe…
Beijing Games will require almost 49 million gallons of water to create conditions for Alpine eventsThe mountains that will be the setting of the Alpine events for the forthcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing boast spectacular scenery and breathtaking ru…
Skiing is a beacon of hope for the brave young women who have taken up the sport at Bamyan Ski Club amid political turmoil in the countryIt is 6.30am and Nazira Khairzad, 18, and her older sister Nazima, 19, are sat with their family trying to eat the …