Video Library
Pagination
The first lifts rolled at Tod Mountain in 1961. Now called Sun Peaks, the resort offers some of British Columbia’s most challenging inbounds skiing. The 3,678-acre ski area is 30 miles to the northeast of Kamloops, B.C.
Promo film from the Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance.
From the Musee du ski Laurentides -- an assortment of how-to-do-it clips by Canadian ski instructors and racers.
Stunts, including some fleeting shots of Stein Eriksen, and powder skiing -- apparently from all over Europe and North America.
This collection of clips was compiled by Bela Vadasz, who with his wife Mimi ran a climbing and backcountry skiing guide service at Donner Pass until his death in 2015. In the first segment, probably shot in the late 1920s, a group (possibly from San Francisco) appears to have gotten off the train at the Western Portal snow shed, and climb onto terrain later developed as the Sugar Bowl ski area. Later, there are clips of cars unloading at Soda Springs. It wasn't until the early 1930s that the state began to plow the Donner Pass road, so this footage probably dates from around 1933 or '34.
A 1941 training film shows how the 10th Mountain instructor corps taught beginners to ski a modified Arlberg progression. A segment from "Basic Principles of Alpine Skiing." Directed by Otto Lang and Hannes Schneider. Skiers include Sgt. Walter Prager and Pvt. John Jay.
It started as a military drill, and became important after Finland's skiing army defended against a Soviet invasion.
Freestyle in Aspen, 1971. The video claims this was the first hotdog contest, but Waterville Valley claims that honor, hosting a freestyle championship meet in 1970.
Pathe newsreel footage (silent) of early skiing in France, beginning around 1909. Shots of Emile Allais.
Best video footage of the 1960 Olympics, compiled by the Museum of Sierra Ski History.
The Saami ("Fenni" or "Lapps") brought skis to northern Scandinavia thousands of years ago.
Jalbert Productions brings 30 years of top racers on the fear and exhilaration of Kitzbuehel's classic downhill.