Swiss Double Downhill Victory After Odermatt Beats Kilde, Canada’s Cameron as Surprise 3rd At 2023 World Championships Sunday’s Men’s Downhill was probably the week’s most anticipated event at the 2023 World Championships in Courchevel and Méribél, France. Some consider the downhill the ‘King of Alpine discipline’, and what’s more awe-inspiring than Alpine skiers hurtling down the mountain at speeds exceeding 90 mph? It takes a particular fearless personality to be able to do that; they are certainly […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | February 14, 2023 0 Comments
The Top 7 Olympic Winter Sports That Didn’t Make the Cut The Winter Olympic Games are not even 100 years old. The first Winter Olympics were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France, and in those 98 years some disciplines and events have come and gone. For the 2028 games in Milan/Cortina, Italy, a new discipline was added with dual moguls, taking it to a total of 16 disciplines and 116 separate […] Olympics Julia Schneemann | October 11, 2022 4 Comments
Andrzej Bargiel Aborts Quest to Ski Everest Due to Hazardous Weather Andrzej Bargiel announced yesterday he had been forced to end his expedition to ski Mount Everest from the summit to base without supplemental oxygen or Sherpa support due to ‘heavy snowfall and strong wind.’ The attempt was his second in three years. I am forced to make a decision to end the expedition. The forecast for the next days and weeks […] SnowBrains | October 4, 2022 0 Comments
Andrzej Bargiel Announces He Will Attempt to Ski Down Everest This Fall Andrzej Bargiel announced today he would shortly be reattempting to ski Mount Everest from the summit to base without supplemental oxygen or Sherpa support. The Polish mountaineer’s first attempt was in 2019, an expedition that ended after five weeks due to a gigantic overhanging serac over the Khumbu Icefall. Related: Andrzej Bargiel Abandons Attempt to Ski Down Everest Due to Unsafe Apartment-Sized […] SnowBrains | August 24, 2022 0 Comments
Avalanche Deaths Across Europe Down by Over a Third This Year Europe averages 100 avalanche fatalities a winter but this year that number was only 66—a decrease by roughly a third. Switzerland in particular, a mountainous, landlocked country plagued by avalanches every winter, reported 14 avalanche deaths so far this season which is significantly lower than its 20-year-average of 18 for this time of year, according to the Swiss Institute for […] Avalanche Martin Kuprianowicz | May 4, 2022 2 Comments
Ukrainian Athlete Forced to Withdraw From Paralympics After Father Captured by Russian Forces A Ukrainian athlete has had to withdraw from the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics after her father was captured by Russian forces. Biathlete Anastasiia Laletina was forced to pull out of the middle distance sitting event on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian paralympic committee told Reuters. Related: International Paralympic Committee Reverses Decision, Bans Russia and Belarus From Competing at Paralympics […] Industry News SnowBrains | March 10, 2022 1 Comment
[OLYMPICS] Canadian Ski Jumping Team Snags First Olympic Medal in Nation’s History Canada has hosted two renditions of the Olympic Winter Games with the 1988 Games in Calgary and the 2010 Games in Vancouver. One of the marquee events of the Olympic Winter Games is the Ski Jumping events, which also requires a considerable amount of infrastructure and investment. With this, both Canadian Olympic venues have Ski Jumps built, but due to lack […] Olympics Phil Tremblay | February 8, 2022 0 Comments
Employee Killed Yesterday When Cable Car Fell From Cable at European Ski Resort An employee was killed in the Czech Republic after a vintage cable car detached from the cable and plummeted to the mountain floor below. The cable car has been running since 1933 and is the country’s oldest. The accident happened yesterday at around 1:30 pm local time at the Ještěd cableway. Smutný den na Ještědu😢 Zaměstnanci Skiareálu Ještěd byli mezi prvními svědky, […] Industry News SnowBrains | November 1, 2021 0 Comments