* 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.

Zakopane made unsuccessful bids to host the 2006 Winter Olympics and the 2011 and 2013 Alpine World Ski Championships.

In 2004, the Victorian State Government made the decision that cattle grazing would no longer be permitted in this remaining area of the Alpine National Park.

Aboriginal people made summer ascents to Mount Buffalo and other Alpine areas to gather and feast on protein-rich Bogong Moths that cluster in rock crevices, and also to meet and hold ceremonies.

One of the more interesting of Strauss's recordings is perhaps the first complete performance of his An Alpine Symphony, made in 1941 and later released by EMI, because Strauss used the full complement of percussion instruments required in this spectacular symphony.

A simple shelter was made at the foot of the mountain near the Biferten Glacier, the Grünhorn Hut, which was the first mountain hut of the Swiss Alpine Club.

A remarkable step was made in 1991 with the signing of the Alpine Convention between all Alpine countries and the European Union.

The restored Bourbon king Louis XVIII made him a peer of France on 4 June, with a seat in the upper house, but, having commanded one of Napoleon's armies on the Alpine frontier during the Hundred Days, he was deprived of his peerage on 24 July 1815.

Alpine redeveloped their chassis and made a number of minor body changes to allow the use of R8 mechanicals.

Joining the Alpine Club in 1857 ( the year of its formation ), Stephen made the first ascent, usually in the company of his favourite Swiss guide Melchior Anderegg, of the following peaks:

* Austria: An Almradler is made with a 60 / 40 mix of popular Austrian Almdudler soda ( a traditional Alpine herb drink that tastes a bit like a ginger ale ) and lager beer.

His racial classification (" Teutonic ", " Alpine " and " Mediterranean ") was also used by William Z. Ripley ( 1867 – 1941 ) who, in The Races of Europe ( 1899 ), made a map of Europe according to the cephalic index of its inhabitants.

Snowmobiles designed to perform various work tasks have been available for many years with dual tracks from such manufacturers as Aktiv ( Sweden ), who made the Grizzly, Ockelbo ( Sweden ), who made the 8000, and Bombardier who made the Alpine and later the Alpine II.

On the same expedition, Marcus Schmuck and Fritz Wintersteller made a flash first ascent of Skil Brum peak ( 7, 360 m ) on June 19, 1957 in pure Alpine style in 53 hours.

The first ascent in 1925 was made by members of the Japanese Alpine Club: S. Hashimoto, H. Hatano, T. Hayakawa, Y. Maki, Y. Mita, N. Okabe.

The Alpine Club of Canada maintains an alpine hut ( the Conrad Kain hut ) in the Bugaboos where Kain also made a number of first ascents, including Bugaboo Spire, the most difficult alpine climb in Canada until the 1940s.

Out of many waterfalls in the Bernese Oberland, the Reichenbach Falls seems to have made the greatest impression on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, who was shown them one Swiss holiday by his host and founder of Lunn Poly and the Public Schools Alpine Sports Club ( later the Alpine Ski Club ), Sir Henry Lunn.

Other sources say the Romans made alliance with the Scordisci in Sirmium and Danube valleys following the Alpine campaign under Tiberius in 15 BC, the alliance would be crucial for the victory over the Pannonians ( 15BC ) and later Breuci ( 12BC ). They started receiving Roman citizenship during Trajan's rule.

In return for this intervention, Piedmont ceded the County of Nice ( which included the city of Nice and the rugged Alpine territory to its north and east ) and the Duchy of Savoy.

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The Adige is one of the three main south-flowing Alpine rivers ; its broadly curving course alongside Trento was straightened in 1850.

After World War I, Trento and its Italian-speaking province, along with Bolzano ( Bozen ) and the part of Tyrol that stretched south of the Alpine watershed ( which was, in the main, German speaking ), were annexed by Italy.

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.

Renault bankrolled the small volume sports-car maker Alpine to transform their little A110 Berlinette coupé into a world-beating rally car, and hired a skilled team of drivers too ; then in 1974 came the Lancia Stratos, the first car designed from scratch to win rallies, and the dominant asphalt rally car of its time.

According to SOIUSA ( International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps ) the mountain range, taken in its wider sense, is an Alpine section classified in the following way:

One of the most considerable Alpine ranges, the Bernese Alps extend from the gorge of Saint-Maurice, through which the Rhone finds its way to Lake Geneva, to the Grimsel Pass or, depending on the definition, to the river Reuss ( thus including the Urner Alps ).

It was established in its modern form in 1981 and is located in the northwestern part of the country, respectively the southeastern part of the Alpine massif.

Mount Buffalo is a moderately tall mountain plateau ( elev 1723 metres AHD at its highest point ) on the west side of the Victoria Alpine region.

An Alpine river in character, its source lies in the Trenta Valley in the Julian Alps in northwestern Slovenia, at an elevation of.

In the immediate aftermath, the station fed its signal to several UHF stations that were still broadcasting ( notably WNYE-TV ), before establishing temporary facilities at the Armstrong Tower in Alpine, New Jersey.

With the division of the Roman Empire and the collapse of its Western part in the fourth and fifth centuries, power relations in the Alpine region reverted to their local dimensions.

The French historian Fernand Braudel, in his famous volume on Mediterranean civilisation, describes the Alps as “ an exceptional range of mountains from the point of view of resources, collective disciplines, the quality of its human population and the number of good roads .” This remarkable human presence in the Alpine region came into being with the population growth and agrarian expansion of the High Middle Ages.

Enormous stress was exerted on sediments of the Alpine Tethys basin and its Mesozoic and early Cenozoic strata were pushed against the stable Eurasian landmass by the northward-moving African landmass.

Also, Alpine is famous for its location of the YMCA Camp Cosby which was established in 1922.

The Australian Alps Walking Track traverses its entire length, starting at Walhalla and continuing north towards the Alpine National Park.

The Upper Sava Valley has an Alpine climate with its long, snow-abundant winters and shorter summers with moderate temperatures, easterly winds and sufficient rain to maintain the valley's greenery.

His company the Alpine Milk Company, later known as the Meyenberg Milk Company opened its first plant in Gonzales in 1906.

Alpine skiing was still in its infancy in America, and it was believed by management that there were not enough accomplished skiers to justify its development in 1936.

* Alpine skiing: Charlemont is well known for its alpine ski area, Berkshire East Ski Area.

The city was founded in 1856 and is named after Chamonix in France, due to its Alpine scenery.

Originally named Glen Alpine School because of its nearness to the pioneer post office of the same name, the school was known by many other names, including the Campbell School, Mtichell School and Willats School.

New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Alpine as its 15th best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the " Best Places To Live " in New Jersey.