Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chairlifts, gondolas, and trams are, understandably, a point of enormous fascination for many skiers. Aside from those who shirk ...

View post: Nearly $7.5 Million Awarded After Heli-Ski Death of Billionaire Named for extreme skiing legend Sylvain Saudan, Blackcomb’s Saudan Couloir is one of those runs. It’s steep, peppered with ...

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 ...

Griffin Post is man of many talents. A two-time US Extreme Freeskiing champion, featured in last seven films by Teton Gravity Research, plus he blurs the lines between athlete & professional writer.

Extreme skiing. With those two words, others whoosh into focus: No limits. Adrenaline. Adventure. Conquest. The joy of living each moment, senses engaged, making each turn, bump, drop and jump count.

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 ...