Ski mountaineering is a new Winter Olympic sport. Here's how it works.

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Crested Butte, Colorado – 12 December 2025
1. Wide of Cameron Smith skinning up mountain
2. Medium of Smith skinning up mountain
3. Side shot of Smith running in skis
4. Slow motion shot of Smith ripping skins off skis during a transition
5. Smith skiing downhill
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Smith, U.S. Olympic qualifier, Ski mountaineering:
"A good ski mountaineer has to be versatile. Because our race happens up the hill, you have to be an aerobic machine to be able to run up the mountain with all this gear attached to you. And you also need to be really precise with your movements to have really fast, efficient transitions. And then you also have to be a skilled, aggressive downhill racer to race back down the mountain.”
7. Wide of people skinning up mountain
8. Medium of Smith’s skis while skinning uphill
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Smith, U.S. Olympic qualifier, Ski mountaineering:
“For the first time the sport is gonna be in the Olympics. It’s a super exciting time.”

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Gothic, Colorado – 29 March 2025
10. Vertical shot of person skiing in the backcountry

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Salida, Colorado – 22 March 2025
11. Vertical of person skinning in backcountry
12. Person skiing downhill in backcountry
UPSOUND: Yea Casey!

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Crested Butte, Colorado – 12 December 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Smith, U.S. Olympic qualifier, Ski mountaineering:
“So, the roots of ski mountaineering, or skimo for short, comes from backcountry skiing. So this is people going out and skiing in the mountains outside of the ski resort. They're making their own trail, climbing up the mountain, and then skiing back down, and doing it all human-powered, uphill and downhill.”

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ARCHIVE - Finland – 20 January 1940
10. STILL - Danish volunteers fighting for Finland on the march with their skis

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ARCHIVE – South Pole – Jan 17, 1912
11. STILL - The Scott Party before Roald Amundsen's tent at the South Pole

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Crested Butte, Colorado – 12 December 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Smith, U.S. Olympic qualifier, Ski mountaineering:
“And this is how people traveled. This is how people hunted. This is centuries, millennia old. It's just that the gear has changed a lot."

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Crested Butte, Colorado – 12 December 2025
13. Smith pulling gear from locker
14. Various of Smith putting on ski boots
15. Smith putting skins on skis
16. Smith buckling helmet
17. Smith walking outside
18. Medium of Smith’s ski boots as he clips in
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Smith, U.S. Olympic qualifier, Ski mountaineering:
“You use specialized gear, lightweight boots and skis that give you flexible ankle articulation, and it lets your heel lift up. And you put these things called skins on the bottom of your skis that glide up the hill, but grip going backwards. So it gives you traction on the way up the mountain.”
20. Various of Smith running up mountain in skis
21. Smith removing skis to boot pack, then replacing skis to skin again
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Smith, U.S. Olympic qualifier, Ski mountaineering:
23. Smith arriving to top and leaning down to yank off skins
24. Smith folding skins and packing them in jacket and starting to ski away
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Smith, U.S. Olympic qualifier, Ski mountaineering:
“And the mixed relay is a little bit longer version of the sprint. So, there’s a male and a female competing together.”
29. Smith skiing down


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