Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher's traumatic brain injuries—sustained during a skiing accident last year—were caused by a helmet-mounted GoPro camera, a French journalist in contact with the family said this week.

Bode Miller won a bronze medal in the Super G today, making him both the most medaled skier in history and the oldest person to win an alpine medal at the Games. But during his post-race interview, NBC correspondent Christin Cooper asked him so many questions about his dead brother that he eventually broke down crying…

This week Michael Skakel, a Kennedy cousin on trial for murdering his neighbor, convinced a judge to relocate his court-ordered GPS ankle bracelet because the bulky tracking device wouldn't fit inside his ski boots.

American skier (and rumored Tiger Woods girlfriend) Lindsey Vonn was airlifted and hospitalized in Austria after suffering a nasty crash in the super G at the ski world championships. As you can see in the video above, Vonn lost her balance, and then a ski, and tumbled down the slope, hitting a gate. She was treated…

There comes a time in every parent's life when he must thrust his child from the comforts of home into the cruel real world. For some people that means requiring your teenager to get a job for pocket money; for others, like the man in this video, that means hurling your youngster at full speed down a snowy hill with…

Yes, sure, global warming is leading us inexorably down the path to all-out global war due to massive human displacement and destruction of resources. But let's focus on the real problem: what about ski resorts? What if people were forced to go skiing later in the season? Absolutely unacceptable. Fortunately, America…

Canadian skicross racer Nick Zoricic died today after crashing at a World Cup event in Switzerland. Zoricic, who was 29, suffered "severe neurotrama" and was unresponsive at the scene. The International Ski Federation released a statement in response.

Vikersund, Norway is home to the biggest hill in the world for ski-jumping. Combine that with professional jumper Jon Aaraas and a helmet-cam, and fasten your seatbelt.

Chelsea Clinton's husband, Marc Mezvinsky, has apparently left his hedge fund job to go skiing in Jackson Hole, Wyoming for "a few months." His wife, however, will visit him "every few weeks." Jeez, Chelsea, give the guy some space.

Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg broke her nose and sustained several facial fractures after a man collided with her on the ski slopes in Colorado. First she was mugged in Spain and now this? She really needs to stop traveling.

[Japan's Taku Tekeuchi during a trial jump at the Four Hills tournament in Austria. Image via AP]

A broken chairlift at Maine's Sugarloaf Mountain injured at least three skiers and hundreds were being evacuated off of the chairlift after being stuck in the freezing cold. Good thing a CNN employee is on the lift to report back!

Bill Murray hobbled out onto Letterman last night in crutches, shorts and a parka to do an "interview", but it was more like two comedic masters trying to outweird each other the whole time—and it was hilarious.