Lindsey Vonn & Thomas Vonn Divorcing

Lindsey Vonn Divorcing after 4 Years Ski champion Lindsey Vonn is divorcing her husband, Thomas Vonn, after four years of marriage. Thomas Vonn, Lindsey Vonn's professional advisor, is a former alpine racer with the...

Parker McDonald: Student Takes Lindsey Vonn to Homecoming

Sophomore Parker McDonald Asks Lindsey Vonn to School Dance If you're an underclassman and skiing superhero Lindsey Vonn walks past your table, what do you do? If you're 16-year-old Parker McDonald, you ask Lindsey...

All About Baldy Mountain in Breckenridge, Colorado

"There is a 6 mile long ridge-line to the southeast of Breckenridge. A saddle divides the ridge-line into two sections: Boreas Mountain and Baldy Mountain, which is home to peaks for skiing, trails for hiking and more. If you’re planning a Breckenridge, Colorado...

Jeret Peterson: Olympic Skier Commits Suicide

Jeret 'Speedy' Peterson: Olympic Freestyle Skier Kills Himself Salt Lake City, Utah police have confirmed that Jeret "Speedy" Peterson. three-time Olympian and freestyle skiing silver medalist at the 2010 Vancouver...

Ryan Hawks Dead: Free Skier Dies at Freeskiing Championships

Noted big-mountain skier Ryan Hawks has died after a suffering a serious injury during the North American Freeskiing Championships  at Lake Tahoe's Kirkwood Ski Resort.The Ryan Hawks injury occurred when he...

Val d'Isere Avalanche: 4 Skiers Killed

Four Skiers Killed in Val d'Isere Avalanche Two French, one Swedish, and one British skier were killed in an avalache at the al d'Isere ski resort in the French Alps. The four victims were found buried in the 300-foot-wide avalanche via their transcievers ten minutes after...

Sugarloaf Ski Lift Collapse: Chair Lift Derailment

Maine Ski Lift Failure: 20-30 People Injured Hundreds of people are trapped on a chair lift at the Sugarloaf ski resort in Maine. The ski lift cable derailed from one of the towers, causing several people to...

Anton Kushnir out of the Men's Freestyle Aerials

Men's Aerials favourite Anton Kushnir crashed out of the Olympics last night with a bad landing, Kushnir, the World Cup leader finished the first round in first place, but with the second jump his ski came off and...

Avalanche warnings on HIGH for B.C. Interior and Coastal Regions

Areas including Whistler Backcountry, Revelstoke, Invermere and Nakusp of British Columbia's mountainous Interior region have had their avalanche warning raised to a "special" high rating by the Canadian Avalanche...

Olympic Female Ski Jumpers Mount Final Appeal

The controversial question of whether female ski jumping should be included in the 2010 Olympic games will be decided soon.  Today the Women will be making their final appeal in front of the B.C. Supreme Court.  Their claim is that Vancouver's Olympic Organizing...

Ski Legend Shane McConkey Dies in BASE Jump Mishap

Ski legend Shane McConkey died today while shooting a ski movie with Matchstick Films in Italy. According to ESPN, McConkey died during a ski-BASE jump mishap, in which one of his skis failed to release after the...

A heroic man and an eminent snow mountain

On January 11, I was on my tour to the Xiling Snow Mountain, a scenic resort located in the west of Chengdu in southwestern China, which is called "Oriental Alps" by some people. There I heard a moving story...

Naked Vail Skier Hanging From Ski Lift Phone Becomes Internet Hit

A photo posted on The Smoking Gun of a Vail skier dangling from the chair lift half naked after a ski accident has become something of an internet sensation. According to the story posted on thesmokinggun.com, the...

Whistler-Blackcomb implements penalties for out-of-bounders

In the wake of the deaths of two skiers due to avalanches in out-of-bounds areas at world-renown Whistler-Blackcomb in British Columbia, the resort area is implementing penalities. In the...

Fred Syversen Sets World Record Cliff Jump Unintentionally

Norwegian skiier Fred Syversen unintentionally set a world record for cliff drops by successfully jumping 107 meters. Syversen was filming a ski movie in the Alps when he accidentally jumped off the wrong...

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