It’s around 102 years since the very first Winter Olympics were held in the French resort of Chamonix, but this year’s Games will be the first to feature the sport of skimo. Short for ski ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 5—On any winter day at Whitefish Mountain Resort, it's common to see a handful of people making the trek up the mountain.

It is no secret that the youth in Summit County are exceptionally active. In fact, the vast majority of Summit County students who participate in sports often play multiple sports within a calendar ...

Skimo as *** race is definitely high output, um, it's basically like trail running. As Stow, Vermont resident Aaron Rice would tell you, Skimo is no walk in the park. 321, right. But *** sprint up *** ...

Ski mountaineering, or “skimo,” is the first entirely new sport at the Winter Olympics since 2002. As its name suggests, skimo combines elements of skiing and mountaineering, requiring competitors to ...

Kirsty Coventry, elected last March as the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, touts the Milan Cortina Winter Games that officially open Friday as “the most gender-balanced ...

Kirsty Coventry, elected last March as the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, touts the Milan Cortina Winter Games that officially open Friday as "the most gender-balanced ...

In December 2014, a few months after he enrolled at a small liberal arts college in the Rocky Mountains, Cam Smith decided to give the sport of ski mountaineering a try. He purchased some cheap gear, ...

The two had longed for skimo’s day on the sporting world’s greatest stage. Though, upon learning of the Olympic format, Smith admits to being “disappointed at first.” There was “a little bit of ...

This story was originally published by Vox and is republished here through a partnership with Climate Desk. Over the past few winters, where I live — in one of the country’s winter sport meccas — ...