Video Library

Bob Woodward recalls the norpine era, when stalwart backcountry skiers revived the art of the Telemark using 55mm skis, three-pin bindings and leather boots. 

Extreme skiing pioneer Kristen Ulmer talks about the uses of fear and her relationship with the sport. "Skiing as sport is only 100 years old, and may last another 100 years with global warming. Only eight generations get to ski. We won the lottery." Speech begins at the four-minute mark. 

Three runs: Lindsey's gold medal run at Vancouver, 2010, plus her bronze medal runs in super g at Vancouver and downhill at Pyeongchang 2018.

Barred from the 1984 Olympics, and challenged by FIS scoring changes, Ingemar posted no World Cup victories in the 1984-85 season. At age 29, he was slowing down. In the first GS of the '85-'86 season, at Alta Badia, he staged a comeback, beating Hubert Strolz by .42 sec. 

Rob Katz, chairman and CEO of Vail Resorts, speaks in Park City. Interviewed by Myles Rademan, March 18, 2019. 

Bill Hazelett of Vermont was an inventor, early heli-skier, friend of Howard Head. In this video interview with filmmaker Rick Moulton of the International Skiing History Association, Hazelett, a brilliant engineer,  reminisces about his remarkable life.  In Stowe in 1945, he devised the first electric-eye race timing system. He invented one of the first high-elasticity ski bindings. He advised Howard Head on a way to affect ski performance by softening tail flex. Beginning in 1968, the year Hans Gmoser opened the Bugaboo Lodge, Hazelett heli-skied for 21 consecutive winters in British Columbia. He joined his friend IBM chairman Tom Watson in sailing adventures, and was an advisor to C.V. Starr, whose AIG Insurance Co. owned the Mount Mansfield Company. Hazelett died in 2010, age 91.    

Roger Cotton Brown transformed the art of the ski film when in 1967 and 1968, with the late Barry Corbet, he created The Incredible Skis and Ski the Outer Limits. In slow-motion sequences edited to classical music, skiers were filmed doing royal christies and variations of wedel turns, hopping spectacularly through mogul fields and making sensuous deep powder turns. Ski movie-making changed forever. Brown went on to do 20 more ski films, including The Moebius Flip, Magic Skis, and the comedic The Great Ski Chase, winning numerous awards. In this video, Brown talks with Rick Moulton of the International Skiing History Association about how he got started in ski movie-making.

Andy Mead was named to the U.S. Ski Team at age 15, and competed in the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympics. She won gold in slalom and GS at the 1952 Oslo games. In later life she was an environmental leader in the Mammoth Lakes area of Colorado. 

John Fry, longtime editor of SKI Magazine and founding editor of Snow Country magazine,
created NASTAR and the Nations Cup. He is the author of the award-winning
book The Story of Modern Skiing, and chairman of the International Skiing History Association.
In this 2006 interview by ISHA's Rick Moulton, Fry talks about the history of ski magazine
publishing, ski resort development, freestyle skiing, snowboarding and much else. Filmed during Skiing History Week at Vail. 

Doug Pfeiffer, one of the founders of PSIA, taught in Canada and California before becoming editor of Skiing Magazine. In that position he was instrumental in launching and publicizing the freestyle skiing movement.

Art Furrer grew up as a ski racer in Switzerland. He worked as a ski instructor in the United States from 1959 to 1972, where he was very influential in developing an instructional method that emphasized balance over strength. He also developed a form of acrobatic and mogul skiing that led the way to freestyle. Today he owns a chain of hotels at Swiss ski resorts.

An eight-minute Disney classic, from 1941. Goofy starred in a whole series of sports spoofs. This version uses a reduced screen size. Go here for the full-screen version on the Disney site.