The view is best from the top. It's the moment you disembark from the chair lift that's borne you over the boulevards of snow carved with "S"-shaped grooves. Some skiers cherish the first morning vista, in the thin and freezing air, before they tighten their boots and point their twin sheaths of metal down a vertical field of white. I prefer the last run, wobbly and a little reckless, down the peak's backside at three o'clock, toward the room with a fire, a hot mug, and a bag of ice. These moments, and the many between them, inspire 60 million cumulative ski- and snowboard-days, adding up to a $3 billion businesses in the U.S.

The Norwegian mountaineering community has lost two of its finest with the deaths of Bjorn-Eivind Aartun and Stein-Ivar Gravdal.

Can Mexico's most popular bike race survive in the murder capital of the world? Hammering battle-scarred desert singletrack, our man learns one simple truth: for people living in the crossfire of a vicious war between drug traffickers, the Chupacabras 100km might be their best escape.

The sign read, “Tenaya Canyon is extremely dangerous. Many have lost their lives in the attempt.” Thus warned, my 78-year-old dad was set to hike and rappel through it. And I had agreed to join him.

You could say the same about Beckey. Seventy years after he started pioneering routes up mountains, he’s still chasing new summits. And no, he’s not selling a secret formula to successful mountaineering when you’re on the verge of your 10th decade..

Welcome to the extreme sport of space-diving. After some minor speed bumps, Daredevil adventurer Felix Baumgartner's plans to plunge 23 miles from the edge of space back to Earth -- a Red Bull-sponsored stunt that would be the world's highest freefall -- is finally coming to fruition, the team announced Monday, Feb. 6.

Breckenridge Ski Resort announced today the schedule of events planned for this year’s Breck “Spring Fever” month-long festival, which will feature a series of events taking place from March 17 to closing day, April 15, 2012, both on the mountain and in town.

Fresh off a 5th place finish in Bormio, Italy, last week, Bode Miller now stands atop the World Cup downhill standings. But what most people don’t know is that Miller is also currently leading the revolution in adaptive ski technology.

The talent-packed team of Russians attempting a bold winter ascent of K2suffered the death of Vitaly Gorelik today in base camp, apparently from a heart attack, and has decided to end its expedition.

Lindsey Vonn is a good ski racer. But how about this: “Lindsey Vonn is the greatest racer ever.”