Warning: if you have weak thighs, do not try this at home – or on your skiing holiday. For this is telemarking, a powerful way to ski, whereby the boot is locked into the blade at the toe but the heel ...

There exist precious few resources for learning the telemark turn. Luckily, a few books in the canon have stood the test of time. A look at four classic free-heel how-to’s. Part One of a series. While ...

Telemark has long been judged. But some of those critiques have been instrumental to the sport’s evolution. Have you noticed people aren’t saying “no one cares you tele” much anymore? That refrain–a ...

There’s one word most skiers use to describe their favorite winter sport, and slopestyle freeskier Bella Bacon is no different. “To me skiing feels like freedom,” she says. If you want to experience ...

This one goes out to the newcomers–a group whose promise may render them the most important force in all of telemark, no matter how hypothetical their free-heel participation may be. We need you, and ...

In 1978, a book on telemark skiing was released that would forever change the sport. Exploring technique as much as the coalescing free-heel philosophy, Cross-Country Downhill and Other Nordic ...

In the early spring of 2021, at a time when telemark skiing was still experiencing a long-lived if soon to be concluded dormancy, a rare thing happened for the genuflecting turn. For the first time in ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The snow is powdery, the sun warm and there are 10,000 hectares of Val d’Isère’s epic terrain begging to be carved by ...

Ever looking across the aisle at the alpine world, telemark equipment has long evolved toward stiffer, more resistive models. Not least of all the sport’s boots, whose modern plastic iterations are ...