A team of five Italian skiers and snowboarders last week recorded the third-ever recorded descent of the southeast face of Aiguille du Moine in the French Alps. Davide Capozzi, Julien Herry, Stefano Bigio, Francesco Civra Dano, and Luca Rolli took advantage of unusually good snow for the mountain. "The descent is steep and exposed throughout, and the snow was very difficult to ski," snowboarder Davide Capozzi wrote on PlanetMountain. Jean Marc Boivin made the first descent of the Aiguille... Read More
Bode Miller has ended his 2011-2012 World Cup season to have surgery on his left knee. Miller, 34, is currently ranked 10th in overall World Cup standings. He won December's Birds of Prey downhill at Beaver Creek, Colorado, his 31st career win, and had recorded three other podium finishes. Miller likely injured the knee while previewing the 2014 downhill course in Sochi, Russia, earlier this month. He will return to the United States for surgery and has no plans to retire from skiing. "Bode ha... Read More
The Danish Navy rescued 16 hostages and arrested 17 pirates off the coast of Somalia on Monday. Two other hostages died of undisclosed injuries. The warship, HDMS Absalon, had followed the pirated vessel for seven days along the Somali coast opening fire on Monday, leading to a surrender by the pirates. Navy spokesman Kenneth Nielsen said 17 pirates were detained in the operation. The nationalities of the hostages have not been released.
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On Tuesday, a pair of Nepali adventurers won National Geographic's 2012 People's Choice Adventurers of the Year award for an expedition from the summit of Mt. Everest to the Indian Ocean. Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa, 39, and Sano Babu Sunuwar, 28, paraglided from the summit of Everest on May 21, 2011, biked till they found water, kayaked acrossed the Nepali border, and then paddled the Ganges River to the Indian Ocean. The pair managed to become the first to complete such a descent and had no corporat... Read More
Lindsey Vonn became the most successful super-G skier in women's history on Sunday with a win in Bansko, Bulgaria, notching her 18th career super-G title and her 10th overall win on the World Cup this season. With nine races remaining before the World Cup finals in mid-March, Vonn's 528-point lead over Slovenia's Tina Maze in overall standings all but assures her of her fourth world cup title. Vonn secured a fifth-straight discipline title in downhill earlier this month.
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