Seeking a destination that blends luxury and extreme skiing becomes a balance between the sublime and the absurd. The goal?

The Hornbein Couloir on the north face of Mount Everest is known as the world's most challenging ski descent. On Oct. 15, Jim ...

Extreme skier Jim Morrison, after several years of preparation, climbed Mount Everest's north face. His goal was to ski down ...

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, ...

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 ...

Some of the best extreme skiers in the world recently gathered at a Colorado mountain for an event that might end up in the Winter Olympics someday. Arapahoe Basin hosted the International Freeskiers ...

CONWAY — With slopes ranging from 40 to 55 degrees, Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington was a great training ground for Caite Zeliff, who graduated to even steeper slopes and in doing so, to being ...

LEADVILLE, Colo. >> Nick Burri clicks into his ski bindings, squats to stretch his knees and scans the snowy race course. Moments later, he’s zipping past a series of gates at high speed and hurtling ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Olympic downhills have a special allure, with the fastest and bravest Alpine skiers going full tilt for gold and a place in history. Pyeongchang will see no change there but newer ...