* 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.

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.

He was eventually accepted and sent to the Alpine Front.

ROW Upholstery was grey / ochre striped flannel cloth with ochre piping for Alpine White cars, or grey / turquoise with turquoise piping for Black cars.

This Slavic tribe, also known as the Alpine Slavs, was submitted to Avar rule before joining the Slavic chieftain Samo's Slavic tribal union in 623 AD.

The complex formed during the Miocene and was folded and metamorphosed during the Alpine Orogeny around 60 million years ago.

Alpine 1. 0 was publicly released on December 20, 2007.

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 Alpine Botanical Garden, located on Monte Bondone in Le Viotte, was founded in 1938.

The first Alpine event was held in 1898, the Austrian Touring Club's three-day Automobile Run through South Tyrol, which included the infamous Stelvio Pass.

The Wank-Haus was constructed by the local branch of the German Alpine Association ( DAV ) in 1911.

Grazing was also removed from Mounts Feathertop, Hotham and Bogong around this time, from around Mount Howitt in the 1980s, and from the northern Bogong High Plains, the Bluff and part of Davies Plains in the early 1990s, leaving about one third of the Alpine National Park – over 200, 000 hectares – available for grazing.

As of 12 January 2011 a group of cattlemen was permitted by Parks Victoria to return small numbers of cattle to fenced areas in the Alpine National Park.

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.

It was destined to become an Alpine Conservation Park ; however, permanent conservation was not possible at that time.

The Austrian advance into Piedmont was incompetent, and they were unable to secure the Alpine passes before the arrival of the French army, led personally by Napoleon III.

220 A. D .) Aconite was also described in Greek and Roman medicine by Theophrastus, Dioscorides, and Pliny the Elder, who most likely prescribed the Alpine species Aconitum lycoctonum.

During World War I he was assigned to the third Alpine Artillery division of the Italian Army.

The appellation " Abominable Snowman " was coined in 1921, the same year Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Howard-Bury led the joint Alpine Club and Royal Geographical Society " Everest Reconnaissance Expedition " which he chronicled in Mount Everest The Reconnaissance, 1921.

Richard Strauss was the composer of the music on the first CD to be commercially released: Deutsche Grammophon's 1983 release of their 1980 recording of Herbert von Karajan conducting the Alpine 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.

The Pansy is the flower of Osaka, Japan, and was the name of the Epiphone Elitist Les Paul Custom guitar with an Alpine White finish played by guitarist Frank Iero ( whose nickname, coincidentally, is also Pansy ) of the band My Chemical Romance.

In 1991 the Alpine Convention was established to regulate this transnational area, whose area measures about 190, 000 square kilometres.