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The first part of our series about the history of skiing finished during the mid-1800’s and looked how the cambered design revolutionized skiing at the time and set the standards for the future development of ski making. We continue our story after 1840 and look at the next major development[…]
You may think that skiing is something that was designed and developed fairly recently, say in the last couple of centuries. This may be a misapprehension because skiing has recently appeared on the Winter Olympics agenda, but that is because the Winter Olympics Games only started in 1924. There is[…]