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History for Sale: Richard Allen Collection for Sale
Richard Allen has been hunting out old ski gear, skiwear, posters and patches since childhood. The collection grew into a business, Vintage Ski World, based in Aspen and Carbondale, Colo. Today,...
Vermont's Jay Peak
This article and its images are copyrighted extracts from the forthcoming book, Jay Peak, by ISHA member and author Bob Soden. To learn more, go to www.jaypeakhistory.com. (Above) Photo Courtesy of...
Skiing History Week Heads to Steamboat, April 8-12, 2015
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE SKIING HISTORY WEEK AND HALL OF FAME INDUCTION APRIL 8-12, 2015 STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO Colorado’s Steamboat Ski Resort has been selected as the site of the...
Pinheads on the Haute Route
Even a trivial challenge can change your life. By Seth Masia 1983 was the 80th anniversary of the “tourist” route from Chamonix to Zermatt, a high traverse of about 100km across the glaciers,...
The Master Boot Laster
Many racers believe they need downsized, super-stiff, ultra-narrow boots. The most accomplished alpine ski boot designer of the plastic era, Sven Coomer, believes that’s changing. By Jackson Hogen...
2013 ISHA Annual Awards
Park City, Utah April 3, 2014 The International Skiing History Association Awards, established in 1993, are presented annually to authors of outstanding histories, films and DVDs, Websites, museum...
After Sochi, What?
Pondering the environmental impact and future of the costly Winter Olympics. By John Fry The organization of the recent Sochi Olympics was superb, and it’s no historical exaggeration to say that the...
Sweet Success
From 1961 through 1967, the annual Bee Hive giant slalom competition attracted the world’s top professional racers to Canada. By Caroline Forcier Holloway On March 7, 2014, the Georgian Peaks ski...
Globalization of the Olympics?
By John Allen Of 2,856 athletes competing from 88 countries at the Sochi Winter Games, seven came from six first timers: Malta, Paraguay, East Timor, Togo, Tonga, and Zimbabwe. Outside of the luger...
The French Connection: The First Winter Games
How concern for the national health and military preparedness led France to build the infrastructure for Chamonix, 1924. By E. John B. Allen The generation of men and women who took to recreational...
Olympic Memories
A veteran journalist on the world alpine racing circuit recalls moments of high drama—and humor—from the Winter Games. STORY BY PATRICK LANG INNSBRUCK 1976 FRANZ KLAMMER’S RECKLESS GOLD-MEDAL RUN...
Lake Placid, 1932
How the Olympics came to a sleepy Adirondack village By Morten Lund The fact that in 1932 an Olympics came to America at all is a story with a bit of a strangeness about it, not least of all, the...
Schranz vs. Brundage: The Olympic controversy for all time
An outraged IOC czar, an impenitent ski racer. Their loathing was mutual. BY JOHN FRY Prize money in a single World Cup race is now in six figures. Competitors openly negotiate contracts to promote...
Greatest Racers: Olympics sort out the best
Who are the greatest racers? Look to the Olympics for the skiers able to conquer pressure. By John Fry With 48 homers and 130 runs batted in, New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez...
Bode Miller at the 2006 Olympics, and After
BODE: LOOKING BACK TO THE 2006 OLYMPICS By John Fry Even before they turned off the gas to the Olympic Winter Games flame at Turin, the celebration of the world’s most famous skier had become a roast...
Brain Trauma: Does the Sport Need to Change?
By John Fry The recent horrifying injury suffered by Formula One racing champion Michael Schumacher -- not in a speeding race car, but when he was skiing between pistes on ungroomed snow in the...
Blakes Sell Taos
After 60 years in the Valley, the founding family moves on. The Blake family has sold Taos Ski Valley to hedge fund billionaire Louis Moore Bacon. Bacon has already acquired the three acres of land...
Legend of Aahhh's
A new ski film by Greg Stump attempts to tell the history of the ski film. Seldom has a new ski movie been awaited as impatiently as Greg Stump’s Legend of Aahhh’s…at least not since skiers stood...