Arne Backstorm, an amazing skier who unfortunately died this week while skiing in the mountains in Peru, won the 2010 Freeskiing World Tour in Revelstoke BC, a world renown backcountry skiing heaven. Here is a ski video of his winning run off a mountain peak in Revelstoke. The winning ski run includes many obstacles and difficulties such as rocks, deep powder, and cliff drops.

The winner is selected by a panel of judges based on ski technique, speed, and difficulty of line. This is an all out awesome backcountry ski run. Backcounty skiing technique doesn’t get more perfect than this!

A training run on the Birds of Prey downhill race at Beaver Creek Ski Resort, near Avon Colorado in the Rocky Mountrains, turns tragic for Norwegian alpine skier Aksel Lund Svindal. As the ski racer speeds down the slope, he gets some big air off a lip and somersaults into the protective fencing. The skiing accident is horrible and he ends up in the hospital with career threatening injuries. He recovers  however, and a year later is back to World Cup ski racing getting his first two new victories at the same place he suffered his ski accident, at Beaver Creek, Colorado, USA.

The Birds of Prey downhill ski racing course is a challenging run with up to 45 degree slopes used for World Cup Skiing Super-G, and Super combined races. This run at Beaver Creek, Colorado, has a vertical drop of over 2600 feet This ski racing videos shows Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal horrible accident during training for such an event. The ending showing him in the hospital reminds us that we can never be too careful when practicing extreme sports.

Here is a video of a crazy ski jumping accident that happened at a World Cup Event in Zakopane, Poland held in January 2007.

There were strong, variable winds causing problems for the ski jumpers. In this ski jumping video, Jav Mazoch, one of the competiors, seems to be doing fine after taking off from the ski ramp.  Then, a fluke air pocket causes him to lose lift and he takes a terrible fall.

He ended up being in a coma and had some brain injuries but has since recovered and has resumed ski jumping.

I suggest you mute the music on this skiing video. Apart from the music, the ski crashes in this video are mostly of ski racers but it does include a sweet video clip of a skier skiing down an avalanche between two cliffs. There are some funny and embarrassing ski crashes in this video as well as some that just have to hurt.

Here is a video of an accident at a ski aerial competition in Torino, Italy. As the skier takes off, he loses his skis immediately and does 4 flips before he disappears in the horizon.