Snow Leopard Encounter in Gulmarg: Skiers, Camouflage and the Real Story
In February 2016, a group of skiers in Gulmarg, Kashmir, came within a few metres of one of the world’s most elusive big cats. Their guide t...
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Explore ski films, powder snow photography and mountain adventures from the Snow Addiction archive. Follow skiing stories from alpine slopes to winter destinations around the world.
Candide Thovex’s One of Those Days 3: La Clusaz Ski Film, 2016
Ski tips, a snowy approach and a dark opening in the rock straight ahead: that is how French freeskier Candide Thovex pulls viewers into On...
Boston Street Skiing: Clayton Vila and Cam Riley in the Record 2015 Winter
In the winter of 2015 Boston was buried under the heaviest snow in its recorded history, and two young skiers treated the city as a terrain...
Skiing the Alps with a Camera: Laura Wagemakers’s Snowy Day
After a winter that started with almost no snow, it finally snowed for days in the Alps, and then the sun came out. Laura Wagemakers took h...
Ten Fun Winter Sports to Try Beyond Skiing, from Sledging to Luge
Skiing is only the start of what snow and ice can offer. From a floodlit Swiss sled run to a dog team in Greenland, these ten winter sports...
Ian McIntosh's 1,600-Foot Fall in Alaska's Neacola Mountains
On one of his first turns down a steep face in Alaska's Neacola Mountains, professional skier Ian McIntosh dropped into a trench he coul...
Dog Plays Fetch with Skiers in Leukerbad, Switzerland
Two skiers are crossing a snowy slope in Leukerbad, Switzerland, when a black-and-white dog trots up with a stick and a clear request: thro...
Skiing Down a Volcano Without Snow: Ash Slopes, Cerro Negro and Etna
Skis and snow belong together, which is why this helmet-camera clip makes you look twice. The skiers in it are carving down the dark, loose ...
Léo Taillefer’s GoPro Line of the Winter Run in Val d'Isère (2015)
Ski tips in the corner of the frame, a gloved hand, and then a fast, playful run through the off-piste terrain of Val d'Isère. French fr...
Avalanche Rescue at Les Crosets: James Mort’s Burial in the Swiss Alps
On 30 January 2015, Australian skier James Mort was swept into a terrain trap by an avalanche above Les Crosets, on the Swiss side of the P...
Oulanka National Park in Winter: Skiing, Snowshoe Trails and Rapids
In winter, Oulanka National Park turns into a world of snow-laden spruce, frozen canyon walls and dark green rapids that never quite stop mo...
Candide Thovex One of Those Days 2: The Helmet-Cam Ski Film Explained
French freeskier Candide Thovex strapped a camera to his helmet and turned an ordinary day at a ski resort into one of the most-watched ski...
Candide Thovex’s One of Those Days 2: Inside a GoPro Ski Classic
Candide Thovex’s One of Those Days 2 puts the viewer right behind the ski tips of one of the most gifted freeskiers of his generation. Rel...
Arlberg Ski Resorts, Austria: St. Anton, Lech, Zürs and Ski History
The Arlberg, on the border of Tyrol and Vorarlberg, is where modern Alpine skiing grew up. Today its villages, from St. Anton to Lech and Zü...
Cody Townsend’s Tordrillo Chute: The ‘Most Insane Ski Line Ever’
A super-narrow slot of snow, cliffs on both sides and more than 2,000 vertical feet below: in December 2014 Matchstick Productions released...
10 Ski Villages for a Winter Holiday: Chamonix, Zermatt, Hakuba and More
The best ski holidays combine a great mountain with a town worth coming back to after the last lift. These ten ski villages, from Chamonix ...
Robbie Maddison Rides the Utah Olympic Park Ski Jump on a Motorcycle
In November 2014 Australian freestyle motocross rider Robbie "Maddo" Maddison rode a KTM down the K120 ski jump at the Utah Olymp...
Afterglow: LED Light-Suit Night Skiing at Alyeska, Alaska
Powder explodes into clouds of violet and blue, and each skier draws a glowing line down a pitch-black Alaskan mountain. Afterglow , a 2014...
Five North American Ski Areas: Taos, Jackson Hole, Revelstoke and More
Five North American ski areas stood out for the 2014–15 winter, each with something new on the mountain: fresh lift-served terrain in New Me...
Skier Rescues a Sheep in New Zealand’s Hector Mountains
Queenstown professional skier Pete Oswald was waiting for a photo on the last run of a heli-skiing day when something small and woolly came...