"Mr. Putin told me Sochi has the best snow in the world, and I have no reason not to believe him, " former Olympic ski champion Jean-Claude Killy, chair of the International Olympic Committee coordination commission for the Sochi games, told reporters last year.
Skis were widely utilized in Central Asia and Europe, while snowshoes were common in the New World - probably because snow was more compact and less soft in the Old World, theorizes Huntford.
Launched in 1963, Harbin's festival is now ranked as one of the four largest ice and snow carnivals in the world and attracts close on a million visitors.
From late December, visitors flock to this city in Heilongjiang Province in the north-east of China to experience one of the finest ice and snow festivals anywhere in the world.
The Liquid Image Summit Series is the world's first snow goggle with an integrated digital camera.
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"It's a perfect day, " said Streitberger, who was fourth in the world championships on home snow at Schladming, where Austria's only individual gold came on the final day last Sunday for overall World Cup leader Marcel Hirscher in the slalom.
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Complicated statistics are quickly finding their way into the hockey world, but Snow insists that logic and simplicity are still very important.
Mother Nature has a long history of interfering with our favorite pro sports, from collapsing stadium roofs with snow to interrupting the World Series with an earthquake.
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Suemedha Snood has written about Unusual snow sports and activities around the world, like the Polar Bears.
The progress of the Snow Leopard will be keenly followed as he pits his skills against the elite of world skiing, but he will lack nothing in determination as he carries the flag for Africa.
According to the World Resources Institute, a lack of snow could also threaten the future of Winter Olympic Games.
He's a lifelong commercial fisherman ... a production operator in the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope ... a proud member of the United Steel Workers Union ... and world champion snow machine racer.
Every news outlet in the world was reporting the story and flashing pictures of his snow-white hair, skinny ties and sardonic smile.
Then the playoffs and World Series could end before we need to bring out our snow boots and skis.
"Wildlife will be impacted, but they are pretty adept at dealing with a topsy-turvy world, " said Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
But while the winter months are dark, treacherous and shrouded in a white uniform of snow, summer brings with it the chance to see this part of the world in all its green grassy goodness.
The helicopters were going back and forth, ferrying snow from the high peaks in the Alps down to naked ski slopes so that the World Cup ski racers would have something to shush on besides bare rock.
Jay, ranked 20th in the world standings, took advantage of his early start with the favourable weather conditions as snow hampered the later starters.
On January 20th the IPCC released a statement reiterating its overall conclusion on water from seasonal snow packs and glaciers in a warming world: that it is likely to be scarcer and available at different times.
Meanwhile, Saturday's women's World Cup Super G race at Val d'Isere was called off due to heavy snow at the French resort.
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My train is chugging up the snow-carpeted mountain to the Alpine resort of Davos, once a refuge for consumptives and now, at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, home-from-home for the world's more conspicuous consumers (bankers, hedge fund managers, private-equity stars, inter alia).
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