The world's first skiers

[Carpe Canem]

Great article in this month's National Geographic. This illustration is part of it.

Talk about BC

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/12/first-skiers/ski-history-interactive

[Matt J]

Great article in this month's National Geographic. This illustration is part of it.

Talk about BC

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/20...ry-interactive

Awesome! I like the moustache center mount for the current ski, too bad it's out of scale or for a kid.

The writer took telemark skis to the other side of the planet, pretty awesome!

[PaulB]

Naheed Henderson gave a presentation at the 2006 Vancouver International Film Festival about a trip she made to the Altai Mountains with Nils Larsen. Some of the video she had of the locals on those crazy long skis was hilarious, especially the young kids.

Indigenous Skiing in the Altai Mountains of NW China

[Tele 'til You're Smelly]

this thread is sooo much better than the OR catalog one- so a bump for that!