October 2010
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Skiers - Take Your Trainer On Holiday
The answer is obviously yes to wanting to ski better, but how do you go about it? One answer is to have some lessons before you even reach the Alps. Then have lessons out in the mountains with the same instructor. Ski company Inside Out are a company that offers exactly this type of service. The idea is a simple one.
Take a certain amount of lessons on an indoor slope in the UK on real snow...
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Australis - An Antartic Ski Odyssey
In November 2009, Chris Davenport, Stian Hagen, and Andrea Binning donned mens ski helmets and went to the bottom of the world in search for the ski lines of their desires. During their journey to the Antarctic Peninsula, the team discovered a new realization with the absolute wonder of ski mountaineering and in the depths of human identification with nature. Their adventure is told here.
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Sight-impaired go skiing with support
There’s nothing particularly special about skating or snowboarding, it’s an every-day hobby for many people, unless of course you are blind. A Pennsylvania assistance group recognized as Vibrant - Blind Outside Leisure Progress is enabling the eyesight impaired to achieve just that. An individual instance is Nancy Leverett who manages to go skating a few instances per month, a feat...