10 Historic Moments in Skiing You Should Know About

Skiing has a rich, if truncated, history. Technically, the sport started thousands of years ago. But skiing's modern iteration, with its chairlifts and fancy outerwear, isn't particularly old. For that reason, many of the sport's significant moments—from first tricks to chairlifts and alpine racing firsts—didn't happen that long ago. And thanks to skiing's relative youth, history is still being written today as boundaries are broken left and right.
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