History of Skiing - Gallery

Gallery

  • A skiing Sami woman or a goddess. Olaus Magnus (1555)|

  • Advertisement for ski race in La Porte, California (1869)

  • Theodor von Lerch, an Austrian major, teaching skiing to Japanese army as the first experience to Japan at Jōetsu, Niigata on 12 January 1911.

  • Skiing in Scandinavia, 1767

  • The Böksta Runestone is believed to depict the Viking god Ullr with his skis and his bow

  • The 1903 rendition of medieval Russian soldiers' use of skis to facilitate their movement during winter campaigns.

  • The Norse goddess Skaði hunts in the mountains on skis in an illustration (1901) by H. L. M.

  • Kiandra "Snow Shoe" (Skiing) Carnival, New South Wales, Australia, in 1900.

  • Wolf hunting on skis

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