As the nights draw in, it’s time to plan a snowy outdoors adventure for later in the year. So what challenges do you have up your sleeve this winter? A ski mountaineering expedition, maybe?Nope, we aren’t predicting a bumper snow season

It's another nail in the coffin of the Scottish winter with lastweek's news that two of the country's leading ski venues are up forsale due to our pathetic winters.The owners of the Glenshee and Glencoe ski resorts put them on themarket after

We just love these images from the recently held Third Afghan Ski Challenge supported by Arc'teryx and featuring women competitors for the first time, with all the local racers beating visiting international competitors.Here's a full report from

We doubt many of you are about to down tools and fly out to Afghanistan for the second Afghan Ski Challenge next weekend, but it's kind of uplifting to learn that the war-torn country is hosting a ski touring race in the Bamiyan region

When it comes to protecting your feet from injury and strain in a multitude of snowsports, good quality performance socks are a crucial part of your winter sports kit. SmartWool's PhD Ski and Snowboard collection offers the very highest performance

I came across this slice of video brilliance when I was looking for trailer links for the feature about this year's Sheffield Adventure Film Festival winners - it's actually not a trailer, in fact it's the complete version - I think - of All.I.Can - Imagination which won the Best...

In the crazed world of the Everest Circus with its bizarre cultureof micro-distinction (a term coined, I think by Ed Douglas), thelatest act in the ring is the first non-stop ski descent of themountain by 38-year-old Slovenian Davo Karnicar

This is very cool - skiing off piste in Coire an t-Sneachda in the northern corries of the Cairngorms. If you've climbed there, you'll know some of that stuff is pretty steep, anyway, nabbed off the BMC's Facebook page. Enjoy!And while we

Nothing to do with long throw-ins or pottery, this is a trailer for Superheroes Of Stoke, an epic looking bit of ski porn from the brilliant multi award winning Matchstick Productions (MSP).Superheroes Of Stoke celebrates MSP’s heritage and 20 years

conditions, but not so clever in milder UK winters. So, rather than wait about for the UK to turn alpine, we threw the Alpamayo at our mate Gavin, an experienced skier and mountaineer who was off to La Grave in the French Alps for some serious ski