By Casey Dean, in-house writer for National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS); photograph courtesy NOLS Forget a bikini bod—it ...

Austria’s leading ski mountaineer, Paul Verbnjak, shares insights into his training routines and the specialist equipment behind top-level ski mountaineering performance. Ski touring, ski ...

Even ski instructors need to work on their turns. Larry Camp, 59 years old, has been skiing for over 40 years but never took lessons. A few years ago, he wanted to do two things at once: get better at ...

If this season is anything like the last, more than 11 million people will flood into United States ski resorts — and about 66,000 of them will go to the hospital with an injury. Skiing injuries have ...

Spend a day at any ski resort in the world, and you’ll notice a quiet and effective army of workers getting things done behind the scenes. These men and women, proudly wearing their red jackets, are ...

In each class for the Cold-Weather Operations Course (CWOC) at Fort McCoy, students receive approximately 16 hours of training in skiing - one of the longest lengths of training time allotted for a ...

At the Olympic level, every athlete is world-class, and the margins of victory can be miniscule. So for those hoping for glory in downhill skiing, intimate familiarity with the slopes they’ll be ...

You know you’re a skier when winter daydreams involve swooping down sparkling slopes on far off majestic mountains. So when your precious ski trip does come around, it pays to have done a bit of ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. When Mikaela Shiffrin started skiing again weeks after her terrifying crash last year, the ...

For the majority of students attending the Cold-Weather Operations Course at Fort McCoy, when they put on skis, it’s the first time. The white all-terrain skis have been a part of military ...

When Mikaela Shiffrin started skiing again weeks after her terrifying crash last year, the American star was even more alert to the potential dangers of training courses. Shiffrin's injuries — ...