An extreme ski jump attempt where the rider launches backward off the ramp. The video shows speed, balance, timing, and how ...

UPPER PENINSULA — The annual Ishpeming Ski Jump is going ahead as planned next weekend. The weekend of Jan. 19-20 will feature the 137th annual Ishpeming Ski Jump, where dozens of professional skiers ...

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.

I regret to inform you Red Bull is at it again. The Austrian energy drink concern, a pioneer of beverages that taste like crushed up SweetTarts and make hangovers slightly more tolerable (then ...

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 ...

NEGAUNEE, MI -- The longest consecutively running ski jumping tournament in the United States is set to return to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The 138th annual Ishpeming Ski Club Ski Jumping Tournament ...

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 ...

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 ...

PERHAM, Minn. — Betsy Gilman last month finally won the gold medal she has been chasing for decades. Thirteen countries were represented at the World Masters Barefoot Championships that took place ...

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 ...

BRATTLEBORO — The town's famous Harris Hill Ski Jump will spend this summer getting a lift — a face lift, that is. Work is already underway at the ski jumping hill, with $420,000 worth of repairs and ...