ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Of all the things you need to worry about when flying more than 100 yards off a 377-foot-tall ski jump at 60 miles an hour, you’d think your outfit would be way down on the list.

It feels like being a kite in the air. That’s how Minneapolis ski jumping coach Peter Geye describes the sensation of flying 400 feet through the air off a towering 70-meter jump like the one his team ...

Ski jumping makes for one of the most spectacular events at the Winter Olympics — fearless athletes hurtling down a steep ramp, approaching 60 mph, before launching themselves off a jump and soaring ...

It is impossible not to notice the ski jump. It looms above the office parks of southwest Minneapolis, Mount Everest to their glass-walled foothills. At night, it glows — power lights reflecting on ...

In one of the most exhilarating sports on the Olympic program, ski jumpers attempt to defy gravity, sliding down a ramp and launching themselves into the air with the goal of landing as far away as ...

The Nansen Ski Club was notified that its agreement was officially executed for the federal “Save America’s Treasures” grant that will provide up to $500,000 to continue the rehabilitation of the Big ...

On a Sunday in January of 1994, an 18-year-old Austrian ski jumper named Mathias Wallner leapt 518 feet from Copper Peak, a distance that would have carried him over the top of 13 city buses parked ...

Imagine a meeting of the United Nations. But with a two-day supply of beer and brandy. Sausages on the grill. And burly bikers providing security. Then, for entertainment, have young men hurl ...

FARGO — In the category of strange but true, Fargo, North Dakota — with some of the flattest land on the planet — was once the place to go to feel on top of the world. In the first part of the 20th ...

Fred Harris, shown here in 1911, brought his enthusiasm for winter sports to the campus of Dartmouth College. In 1922, when Harris was in his mid-30s, he persuaded businessmen in his hometown of ...

Every gift will be doubled and send two days of emergency heat to a home in need. Will you chip in? Brattleboro’s Harris Hill Ski Jump is celebrating its centennial this Presidents Day weekend. Photo ...