* Nordic skiing, a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing

Common individual sports include cross-country skiing, Alpine skiing, snowboarding, ski jumping, speed skating, figure skating, luge, skeleton, bobsleigh and snowmobiling.

* Alpine skiing *

* Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings.

Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings ; ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country ; ski jumping ; and Telemark.

Alpine skiing is popular wherever the combination of snow, mountain slopes, and a sufficient tourist infrastructure can be built up, including parts of Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand, the South American Andes, and East Asia.

Alpine skiing began as a club sport 1861 at Kiandra in Australia and a number of similar clubs in North America and the Swiss Alps.

Alpine skiing evolved as a specialization on the general sport of skiing during the late 19th century.

Various Alpine skiing competitions have developed in the history of skiing.

In addition to racing and freestyle, other types of Alpine skiing competitions exist.

More traditional events include gelandesprung jumping ( ski jumping for distance on Alpine equipment ), and " powder 8 " contests ; among the more recent introductions are " big mountain " or " extreme skiing " contests, in which athletes start at the top of a mountain and ski a route down that involves wide, fast turns as well as cliff drops.

Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics consisted of ten events held near Salt Lake City, Utah, U. S. A.

: Narrower and lighter than those used in Alpine skiing.

The area lends itself to a wide variety of outdoor sports, both winter ( ice hockey, Nordic and Alpine skiing, figure skating, and snowmobiling ) and summer ( trail running, hiking, camping, river and sea kayaking, sailing, windsurfing and road and mountain biking ).

* Alpine skiing

Cross country skiing is popular in such national parks as Mount Buffalo National Park and Alpine National Park.

Dedicated Cross Country ski resorts are located at Lake Mountain, Mount Stirling and Mount St Gwinear in Victoria and popular areas for back country skiing and ski touring in the Alpine National Park, Yarra Ranges National Park and the Baw Baw National Park include: Mount Bogong, Mount Feathertop, Bogong High Plains, Mount Howitt, Mount Reynard and Snowy Plains.

Much of the Alpine culture is unchanged since the medieval period when skills that guaranteed survival in the mountain valleys and in the highest villages became mainstays, leading to strong traditions of carpentry, woodcarving, baking and pastry-making, and cheesemaking.

Cheesemaking is an ancient tradition in most Alpine countries.

Alpine festivals vary from country to country and often include the display of local costumes such as dirndl and trachten, the playing of Alpenhorns, wrestling matches, some pagan traditions such as Walpurgis Night, and in many areas Carnival is celebrated before Lent.

With over 120 million visitors a year tourism is integral to the Alpine economy with much it coming from winter sports although summer visitors are an important component of the tourism industry.

The most common derivation provided in English dictionaries is from the Alpine French dialect pronunciation of the word Chrétien ("( a ) Christian "), which was a greeting there.

The Alpine mountain range is linked with the Apennines with the Colle di Cadibona pass in the Ligurian Alps.

One of the most famous and recent ones is the 25 euro 150 Years Semmering Alpine Railway commemorative coin.

Below is shown the first functional Alpine locomotive, the Engerth ; constructed by Wilhelm Freiherr von Engerth.

Munich is situated in the Northern Alpine Foreland.

Generally the term describes only the defenses facing Germany, while the term Alpine Line is used for the Franco-Italian defenses.

The Alpine touring ski is a modified lightweight downhill ski with an alpine touring binding.

One is reminded of Ötzi the Iceman, a Copper Age mummy revealed by an Alpine melting glacier, who collapsed from loss of blood due to an arrow wound in the back.

* The Alpine Club of Canada, Toronto section, is founded.

* A man trapped in an Alpine glacier (" Ötzi the Iceman ") is frozen until his discovery in 1991.

Nearby is the Sierra Nevada Ski Station, where the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1996 were held.

Another important element of Austrian geology and geography is the late Mesozoic Alpine orogeny, and the subsequent formation of the Paratethys ocean and Molasse Basin in the Cretaceous era.

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The most important mountainous area is an Alpine zone including the Lepontine and Rhaetian Alps, ( Piz Bernina – La Spedla, 4, 020 m ), the Bergamo Alps, the Ortler Alps and the Adamello massif ; it is followed by an Alpine foothills zone Prealpi, which include the main peaks are the Grigna Group ( 2, 410 m ), Resegone ( 1, 875 m ) and Presolana ( 2, 521 m ).

In the area of the great Alpine foothills lakes, however, grow olive trees, cypresses and larches, as well as varieties of subtropical flora such as magnolias, azaleas, acacias, etc.

The proximity of the mountains – as well as its status as the most populated city of the Alpine region before Innsbruck and Bolzano – has led to the city being known in France as the " Capital of the Alps.

The adopted Pre-Slavic placenames and rivernames and their subsequent phonetic development in Alpine Slavic, as well as Bavarian records of Alpine Slavic names, shed light on the characteristics of the Alpine Slavic language.

The Rock Drawings in Valcamonica date to this period .. A few details have come down to us of the conquest of many of the Alpine tribes by Augustus, as well as Hannibal's battles across the Alps.

Alpine Pavilion, an open-air stone picnic pavilion built in 1934 by the Civil Works Administration and available for rental is located here, as well as the historic Blackledge-Kearney House, said to be the site where Lord Cornwallis and his troops landed on November 20, 1776, in their pursuit of the Continental Army following the rout of George Washington's forces in the Battle of New York.

Lake Placid is well known among winter-sports enthusiasts for its skiing, both Alpine and Nordic.

At the greatest extent of the last glacial period around 18, 000 years ago, southern Europe was characterised by cold open habitats, and the Alpine Chough was found as far as south as southern Italy, well outside its current range.

Critical to its ascent were its military importance in the Roman Empire as well as its favorable location at the convergence of the Alpine rivers Lech and Wertach with direct access to the most important Alpine passes.

Members of The Roots played in various forms as well as a whole band on DMB's back to back concerts at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin.

The other state to have unincorporated areas is Victoria, which has two small unincorporated areas in Alpine Shire, two in Shire of Mansfield ( all of which are ski resorts ), as well as some offshore islands.

On the scree slops there are Penny-cress and Mouse-ear chickweed as well as Mountain avens, Alpine toadflax, Mint and Musky Saxifrage or Cloth of Gold.

The instrument was subsequently employed in the same composer's Elektra, as well as An Alpine Symphony ( though this part frequently calls for notes that are below the range of the heckelphone ), Josephslegende and Festliches Präludium.

During the 1840s, dozens of German, Swiss, and Austrian singing groups crisscrossed the country entertaining audiences with a combination of singing, yodeling, and “ Alpine harmony .” The success of the European groups led to the formation of many American family singing groups as well.

Indeed, since some of these documents come from places in the Alpine valleys, such as Biasca, Lodrino, Venegono and elsewhere, while the modern rite is that of the metropolitan cathedral and the churches of the city of Milan, some proportion of the differences may well turn out to be local rather than chronological developments.

Conrad wrote an autobiography titled Where the Clouds Can Go where he describes his tough years while growing up in Austria as well as his 25 years working variously as a guide for The Alpine Club of Canada, a hunter outfitter, and an assistant to W. O Wheeler for the Geographic Survey of Canada.

; < span id =" alpine_start "> Alpine start </ span >: To make an efficient start on a long climb by packing all your gear the previous evening and starting early in the morning, usually well before sunrise.

Often called the C. lavaretus complex and considered as a superspecies, it encompasses many of the whitefish populations suggested by others to be locally restricted species ( such as the British powan and the gwyniad or the Alpine gravenche, as well as distinct intralacustrine morphs and populations characterized by different feeding habits, gill raker numbers, growth patterns and migration behaviour.

In addition to many papers published in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society and Geological Magazine, he wrote several popular works on Alpine Regions, on English and Welsh scenery, as well as on theological subjects.

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