Through some of the most challenging conditions the season has had to offer, eight brave individuals competed in Perisher’s first ever Ski Mountaineering (SkiMo) races.
Perisher will come alive on 20-21 September as athletes gather for the Snow Australia SkiMo Festival 2025, delivered in partnership with Perisher Resort.
World Cup athletes Phillip Bellingham and Ava McCann have won the first ever Ski Mountaineering event to be held in Australia, the Falls Creek SkiMo Challenge on Sunday August 24.
On Sunday the 24th of August the first Australian SkiMo race is set to take place at Falls Creek. This is an amazing opportunity for the snowsport and back-country community to come together and participate in this newly minted Olympic sport.
Australia’s ski mountaineering athletes set records and delivered personal bests during the 2024/25 northern hemisphere season, with standout performances coming in both individual and team events. Joining the six returning athletes from the previous season, five new Australians made their World Cup debuts.
The 2025 Snow Australia Awards recognise the achievements of athletes across the 2024/25 season and here we recognise the Female Athletes of the Year in Olympic Disciplines.
3 Australian Athletes lined up to yet again take on the best SkiMo athletes in the world at the ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Cup in Schladming, Austria. Our Aussie athletes would seek to tackle a course consisting of 600 vertical meters of climbing over 3.1km.
Bormio saw the height of SkiMo racing this past weekend, with arguably deepest field ever seen at a World Cup. This presented the perfect opportunity for the Australian SkiMo team to test their metal against the best in the world and on the course designed for the Milan Cortina Olympics.
It has been a hectic start of the 2025 for our cross country skiers with athletes competing across Europe and the northern hemisphere with no signs of slowing down as the season moves into top gear.
The road to Milano-Cortina moves into full swing this season for the sport of Ski Mountaineering as athletes attempt to qualify for the Olympic Games for the first time.