Fifty years later, Niehues is the world’s most prolific ski-map illustrator, having hand-painted more than 220 resort trail maps. “You can always look at a trail map and tell it’s his ...

More than once in my several decades of skiing in the West, I’ve gotten lost on a mountain. And many times, I’ve pulled out my James Niehues trail map to get back to a lift or the resort’s ...

Bolivia was once home to Chacaltaya ski resort — formerly the world's highest ski resort. In 2009, the mountain's glacier that was estimated to be 18,000 years old had melted, leaving behind a ...

But for ski resorts, the trail map image remains their most powerful branding tool, one that can capture the natural splendor of their mountain. “They use these images everywhere.

Here in North America, we got some big, honkin' ski resorts. Big Sky. Park City. Whistler Blackcomb. There's a lot to choose from if you crave serious acreage. But across the pond, in the Alps of ...

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The Kaçkar mountains could soon be on the world ski map, and not just for heli-skiing. “We will be very happy if, one day, there is a ski resort in Ayder,” says Gasser.

Anchored by an 80,000 square-meter [860,000 sq ft] indoor ski resort, the largest of its kind in the world, Huafa Snow World boasts a rich mix of retail, entertainment, commercial, hospitality ...

I try to ski up and over them and they begin slowly churning as if trying to push me back down the hill, like the bottom edge of an escalator. I can't climb the hill, so I try going around it.

Kelly added it’s “the largest event ever held in the world with freestyle skiing and snowboarding together.” Events go through Feb. 10.