If you’ve grown tired of the traffic and long lift lines that have become an increasingly unavoidable part of your increasingly pricey annual ski trip, stop complaining. You have options. Like skiing in Iran. Or Africa. Or… Alabama?
The most exotic such trip I’ve taken was snowboarding the back bowls of Vail — not exactly crazy stuff. So I hunted down an all-star panel of experts who, in between fresh powder runs from Turkey to Tajikistan, gave me the skinny on their most memorable globetrotting ski adventures … More
This is the incredible moment a skier – inches from possible death – purposefully crashes to save himself from being caught up terrifying avalanche.
Aloft a cliff-side somewhere in the Chopok mountain range, Slovakia, experienced skier Norbert Salva is about to have a very lucky escape.
Slaloming down the mountainside, the teenager swooshes and veers his way through the powdered white beneath his feet at speed.
Suddenly the snowy surface begins tho break away, and instinctively Norbert manages to hurtle himself to safely, possibly saving his life as inches to his right a huge avalanche tears past at frightening speed.
Join gold medalist alpine skier Julia Mancuso, gold medalist freestyle snowboarder Jamie Anderson and pioneering big mountain skier Lynsey Dyer on an adventure into the Chilean Andes Mountains. With their eclectic riding style and passion for adventure, these three female athletes find magic in the mountains.
Olympic gold medalist David Wise sets a new world recod with the largest air on a hip at a whopping 14.2m (46 feet) during the Suzuki nine Knights in Wtles, South Tyrol, Italy.
“It was not a goal, but I decided to go as high as I possibly can, record or not. To take that title home is definitely an experience of a lifetime”, he said, adding that “the jump is just so well built. From the first time I hit it to the last, I was having fun.”