The origins of skiing are indigenous and 10,000 years old
Today, the Tuva people still keep a 10,000 year-old ski tradition alive in northern Xinjiang province in northwest China.
NativesOutdoors x Cody Townsend: Episode 17 of The Fifty Project Mt. Tukuhnikivatz
Mountains are a skier's passion, but for many people in North America, they're far more than that. They're a source of life, death, spirits, ancestry and most important, it's their home.
Paha Sapa The Skier’s Journey
Follow Lakota skier Connor Ryan across his homeland in search of backcountry ski potential, and write his chapter of Black Hills skiing.
The Summit Which Never Melts
Participating in a sport that, in my view at that time, was desecrating a sacred space conflicted with the teachings I had been raised with as a Navajo person—an ethic of protecting these places for those coming after me.
Skiing Native Lands with Respect
The NativesOutdoors crew teamed up with profesional skier Cody Townsend for an episode of The Fifty Project - a project to ski all 50 of the greatest ski descents of North America.
Treasured Heights: Len Necefer on Skiing, Land and Culture
As part of the Skiing States journey I went to ski Dook’o’oosliid (Humphreys Peak) in 2015 and recently got to interview Len Necefer about skiing, culture and land.