Taking up skiing at any age is challenging. But doing it at 57? When I signed up for a two-day intensive course at ski school in Switzerland, friends gasped, “At your age?!” I’ve always been more ...

Ski season is starting. For parents, that may mean getting kids on the slopes for the first time. But is there a perfect age to learn to ski? Nate Gardner, ski and snowboard school training manager at ...

I'll confess, I'm a runner because I love to run, but also for another reason: I'm pretty terrible at other types of fitness. Anything that requires hand-eye coordination, a better-than-average sense ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skiing is a gear-intensive sport. Not only do you need lots of stuff, you also need the right stuff. Making sure you have items ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mountain moments: A ‘Slope Starters’ holiday is aimed at beginner or lapsed skiers (Crystal Ski) It’s hard not to take “it’s ...

I was raised in the South. When we got snow, television programming was interrupted every five minutes for “Winter Storm Watch” updates, cars lined up in emergency lanes on the highway with their ...

When most people first learn how to ski, they do everything they can to avoid falling. They fight to stay upright, no matter how hard it might seem. They think that's how people learn how to ski - by ...

BEECH MOUNTAIN - I always loved the icy, romantic notion of the ski slopes. Swiss chalets. Torino. Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, in love in the Alps. And all that. I just have never been able ...