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 ...

Follow Fractal Tom as he tackles an extreme ski descent in Patagonia’s backcountry. Starting atop a snowy ridge, he carves ...

Ski lifts, like skiers, come in all shapes and sizes, with varying degrees of technical merit, but only a few have the X factor. Whether it’s a revolutionary design, nerve-jangling ride or historic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Much of Vermont is probably prepping to hunker down inside this weekend as New England braces for subzero temperatures — not the ...

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, ...