When ski mountaineering makes its Winter Games debut next month, its arrival will reflect the decades of history, bureaucracy and regional influence that determine which sports the world sees on the ...

Patches of mud and rock were visible throughout the Mount Washington Ski Resort on Vancouver Island this week. It’s one of several ski hills in parts of British Columbia that have been hit with recent ...

We’re no strangers to a vintage fashion revival—hello capri pants, kitten-heeled mules and silk triangle scarves—but this season, there’s one retro find stealing the spotlight both on and off the ...

A British skier has been killed by an avalanche in the French Alps after being found buried under eight feet of snow. Rescue teams received an avalanche alert at 1.57pm on Sunday and immediately went ...

This is a story about flying to Canada to go heli-skiing and then not actually going heli-skiing. It is a tale of waiting, of optimistically crossing fingers and toes, of getting up early each morning ...

Telluride Ski Resort, located in the jagged San Juan mountains of Western Colorado, has some of the state’s most daunting terrain. The resort’s ski patrollers must spend years becoming familiar with ...

Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychotherapy, theorized that the human feeling of anxiety is the result of a helpless ego, or a defense mechanism to prepare us for a traumatic loss of power.

Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Submit questions here. I don’t know what to do about one of my oldest friends. We’re in our thirties and have been friends for nearly 20 years. We met at our ...

The Winnipeg Jets are postponing a ski-related promotion in the wake of a deadly fire at a ski resort in Switzerland. The National Hockey League team had planned an "apres-ski"-themed night for its ...

Tony Daranyi has worked as a ski patroller in Telluride, Colorado, for 27 years. He’s a certified EMT with advanced training in forecasting avalanches and using explosives to mitigate them. He works ...