Do You Know What Skimo Is? Could Vonn and Shiffrin Team Up? Here's What's New at the Olympics Kirsty Coventry, elected last March as the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sport of ski mountaineering is making its debut at the Winter Olympics in Italy this year. Skimo, as athletes call it today, involves racing up steep mountains on skis before turning around and ...

Welcome to the Last Chair with Jack O'Brien, a new backpage-style column that will focus on human-interest stories and ski culture. A new installment will run every other week. I’ll readily admit it.

The tradition still lives on today, with some national teams still sponsored by military organizations in their countries. This, however, is not true of US Skimo, which has been rapidly ...