China: A Skier's Journey

Two pro skiers travel 11,000km across northern China, from booming new ski resorts to the Altai mountains, where an ancient hunting ski culture may be disappearing.

A rare look at the stone-age roots of skiing, set against China's sudden ski boom.

Skiing as sport is in it’s infancy in China, a phenomenon of the country’s exploding middle class. As a means of survival, however, it is thousands of years old, a stone age hunter-gatherer technology born in the Altai m

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