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His audacious descents around the world inspired a generation of extreme skiers. “One mistake,” he once said, “you die.” Sylvain Saudan, who was widely known as the “skier of the [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy In September 1967, a skier looked down on a narrow chute of snow between the saw-toothed ridges of the Mount Blanc massif. No one before had dared [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy In September 1967, a skier looked down on a narrow chute of snow between the saw-toothed ridges of the Mount Blanc massif. No one before had dared [...]

Byline: By, Tim Hanlon A skier who miraculously survived being trapped under an avalanche for 23 hours has amazed medics by learning to walk again. Mountain rescue teams were expecting [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]ASSOCIATED PRESS PRISTINA, KOSOVO -- Catherine Rigby, a renowned telemark, big mountain, and expedition skier covering first descents of some of the world's most revered peaks, died in an [...]

Byline: Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — A skier was found dead after an avalanche in a backcountry area of Shoshone County, Idaho, officials said, in a week of [...]

Byline: Des Bieler Patrick Gasienica, an American ski jumper who competed for Team USA at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, died Monday at 24. According to the Associated Press, which cited [...]

Byline: By, Matthew Cooper Italian skier Elena Fanchini has tragically passed away at the age of just 37 after a battle with cancer. Fanchini competed at three Winter Olympics and [...]

She became known as Gold-Rosi after winning two Olympic gold medals and the Alpine Ski World Cup in 1976. Rosi Mittermaier, a West German Alpine skier who won two gold [...]

Byline: Karen Florin Aug. 11-- Aug. 11--WATERFORD -- Superior Court Judge Joseph Q. Koletsky, described by his colleagues as a brilliant man who loved the law and by his wife [...]

Byline: Seán Federico O'Murchú (CNN) -- The body of a skier was recovered Wednesday after an avalanche in the New Hampshire Ammonoosuc Ravine in the White Mountain National Forest, according [...]

Byline: Keith Allen, CNN (CNN) -- The bodies of the three skiers caught in a large avalanche in Colorado on Monday have been recovered, according to the San Juan County [...]

Byline: Alta Spells and Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) -- A skier died after being buried by an avalanche Saturday in the backcountry of Summit County, Utah. Kurt Damschroder, 57, of [...]

Matti Nykanen, a Finnish ski jumper who dominated the sport in the 1980s and became a national hero, but whose legacy was tarnished by alcohol abuse and episodes of violence, [...]

Matti Nykanen, a Finnish ski jumper who dominated the sport in the 1980s and became a national hero, but whose legacy was tarnished by alcohol abuse and episodes of violence, [...]

Warren Miller, a passionate skier and filmmaker whose movies introduced skiing and snowboarding to a wide audience, died on Wednesday at his home on Orcas Island in Puget Sound, near [...]

Byline: Robin Brock-Hollinshead ROBIN BROCKHOLLINSHEAD, who has died aged 88, was a former Olympic downhill skier who became Britain's first national coach in 1964; his vision and dedication to skiing [...]

Steven Holcomb, the bobsledding star who drove to three Olympic medals after beating a disease that nearly robbed him of his eyesight, was found dead in Lake Placid, N.Y., on [...]

Jean Vuarnet, a Frenchman who won the gold medal in downhill skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics using an innovative approach to aerodynamics and decades later endured the deaths of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDTwo years ago, Matilda Rapaport, a Swedish extreme skier, survived an avalanche in Haines, Alaska. ''I was dragged all the way down the mountain, partially buried and couldn't get [...]

Bill Johnson, a swaggering skier who in 1984 became the first American man to win an Olympic gold medal in downhill skiing, but whose life took a sharp, precipitous turn [...]

Byline: Matt Bonesteel Bill Johnson, who in 1984 became the first American skier to win a gold medal in the Olympics' marquee skiing event -- the downhill -- died Thursday [...]

Stein Eriksen, an Olympic ski champion whose competitive triumphs, elegant style and innovative acrobatics made him one of the sport's first superstars, died on Sunday at his home in Park [...]