The Skis That Came In From The Cold

Melting of the high mountain ice has released a number of ancient skis. They shed important new light on the earliest history of skiing.

[@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists]

Beautiful history, thank you!

[@scottybeegood]

So who made the first pow planks?

[@davidbostrom5162]

The "Kalvträsk ski" find is ~5200years old. Just sayin :D

[@Sigmamale-ey1dd]

The Digervarden ski was most likely used by the lapps/sámi or “skríðfinner” like the vikings used to call them.

[@sindraschronicles265]

Very plausible! I personally beleive that their first skiis developed were inspired by the samis snowshoes, which looks like a short ski and has fur underneath.. Only a personal theory tho, nothing concrete to back it up with :)

[@garychynne1377]

interesting

[@sondrah.talbot4168]

The entire experience does not seemed to have changed much.

[@69mag]

Except now we have these things called chair lifts, the greatest invention EVER!

[@HBADGERBRAD]

ULLR!

[@happykillmore349]

Furr was used on snow shoes, not skis.

[@secretsoftheice2798]

Fur was used on skis both in prehistory, and in still modern times in the Chinese Altai.