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 ...

Couloir? If you've ever found yourself scratching your head while some headband-wearing, pot-smoking ski bum tells you about the rowdy line they just skied using foreign terminology, you can thank 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, ...

Mountaineering on skis has the potential to be the best of all worlds when presented as the sum of its ingredients and their related benefits. Alpine skiing has always challenged the skills of those ...

Shielded in icy armor, Aoraki/Mt. Cook looms 12,218 feet above New Zealand. The mountain is dangerous, inspirational, and home to the Caroline Face, a glaciated wall that has refuted several steep ...

Sam Smoothy and Will Rowntree have amassed an impressive catalog of first descents in their native land of New Zealand. Shielded in icy armor, Aoraki/Mt. Cook looms 12,218 feet above New Zealand. The ...

Steep skiing means something entirely different in Argentina and Chile. Sleep didn’t come easily on the snowy col below Paso Superior. It was the night before the southern hemisphere’s spring ...

The Dean of Skiing is Dean Decas. He's one of six instructors for the X-Team Advanced Ski Clinics - a multitalented bunch of ski film stars, writers and extreme skiers who have developed their own ...

Editor’s Note: Each Thursday throughout the winter, the Summit Daily News will provide a terrain update that will inform skiers and riders on what trails are open at what mountains before they head ...

Ubisoft has got a brand new game called Steep and it'll seeing you paragliding, snowboarding, skiing and flying a wing suit down the Alps - and probably hitting a lot of trees. Created by Ubisoft ...