23 December 1874
Londoners skate on thin ice: large numbers of people are tempting fate by skating on the capital’s frozen lakes, putting their lives at risk.
5 March 1904
Mountaineering on skis: skis, properly used, give to the ordinary raptures of a glissade a more perfectly lyrical quality.
28 January 1910
Tobogganing at Buxton: though tobogganing is old, it is only four or five years ago that Buxton first took it up.
5 December 1937
Carry-on for a fortnight of snow: the skiing beginner chooses clothes.
8 February 1959
Chris Brasher tackles the Cresta Run: riding the skeleton down the infamous Swiss course.
8 April 1968
Spring skiing on December snows: the snow we ski upon was first laid down at the beginning of winter, not the recent ephemeral stuff.
3 January 1969
Ideal skiing conditions on northern hills: cars are racing out from Tyneside with skis strapped on roof-racks.
7 January 1969
Dutch tourist gets lost in translation: snow joke as visitor explains equipment needs for tackling mountain holiday.
15 February 1984
Champions’ golden Olympic perfection: Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean held spellbound the capacity audience at the Zetra Stadium in Sarajevo.
13 February 1988
Eddie ‘the Eagle’ Edwards: jumping into the limelight: Britain’s best - and only - ski jumper at the Calgary Winter Olympics declares ‘I can jump as well as anyone.’
22 February 2002
The latest thing: curling.
27 December 2008
Out in the cold: Roland Huntford’s Two Planks and a Passion – The Dramatic History of Skiing.
7 February 2014
The Winter Olympic Games in pictures from the GNM Archive.
2 January 2015
Off-piste: a hilarious history of skiwear – in pictures.
