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Canada’s ski mountaineering athletes have their Olympic dreams on the line this weekend at a World Cup event in Solitude, Utah. The mixed relay race doubles as a winner-take-all race between Canada and the U.S. to decide which country’s athletes claim the final two quota spots for Milano Cortina. CBC | Sports News

For many people, skiing uphill sounds like nothing more than, well, an uphill battle. But for Cochrane, Alta., native Kylee Toth, gliding upwards on a mountain for hours at a time — also known as the sport of ski mountaineering — is where she finds her sense of peace. CBC | Sports News

The emotion of the historic moment was evident Friday afternoon on the sun-splashed Villar Winter Park mountainside in Switzerland as 48 young women and men from around the world competed in the first-ever Youth Olympics ski mountaineering event. CBC | Sports News