Britain’s Rowan Cheshire has won gold in the woman’s halfpipe event at the FIS Calgary World Cup last Friday. The 18 year old has topped the podium only 35 days ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
It seems Kim managed to find a lift after all.
Do you ever walk past that rail in your city and daydream about hitting it? Sometimes you just don’t want to wait until wintertime.
The 2014 Nine Queens presented by O’Neill will be returning to Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis for the forth time. Over a course of five days, from the ninth of March to the fourteenth, the invited skiers including Virginie Faivre (SUI), Tiril Sjåstad Christiansen (NOR), Lisa Zimmermann (GER) will strive to win the crown on the iconic castle feature; which organisers insist will be more innovative and aesthetically pleasing than before.
Following the fire in the main chalet building in April 2012, Sheffield Ski Village has fallen into a state of disrepair. So much so, that earlier this year, the city council threatened to take legal action against the site’s owner Mr Pullan, declairing SSV an eyesore due to excessive fly-tipping. Over the past two years, there have been many murmours as to what will become of the site. However only earlier this week Mr Pullan has announced that he is in the process of putting together preliminary plans for a 70-house development on the site.
Back in September the Line Travelling Circus came over to the UK for the second episode of their sixth series. Whilst over here they sampled the best England had to offer on a whistlestop tour of English fridges, and met up with the guys from Ski the Kingdom.
The much rumored link between Alpe d’Huez and Les Deux Alpes has been confirmed recently at the London Ski Show.
Following three years of epic competition, the Swatch Skiers Cup will be returning to Zermatt for the 2014 season. The Swiss town will host the event for six days, between the 4th and 10th of January. This is team Americas’ chance to make it level with team Europe, who are currently leading 2-1, and what better place to do it, than in the shadow of the four-and-a-half thousand metre Matterhorn?
Following some heavy snowfall last week, Cairngorm Mountain near Aviemore opened up for the 2014 season on the 9th of November. As well as being the first ski hill in the UK to open up, Cairngorm opened ahead Whistler, Vail and Alta, to name but a few.
According to a report by the New Zealand Herald, a Swedish skier fell 600m to his death early on the morning of Sunday 3rd. The individual has since been named as 32 year-old Magnus Kastengren by Sweedish Authorities.
The British Indoor Champs is always one of the biggest events of the summer season and with the change of location to Chill Factore, we were keen to find out exactly what went down.
Little write up of my last day
During search training, avalanche transceivers of the ORTOVOX 3+ model switched to transmission mode unintentionally after 120 seconds in search mode.
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