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Heliskiing
Heliskiing, also called heli-skiing, is guided backcountry skiing using helicopters as the lift. Pioneered by Hans Gmoser in Canada's Bugaboos in 1965; costs roughly USD$13,000-17,000 weekly, weather-dependent, avalanche-briefed.
Helmut Recknagel
Helmut Recknagel (born 1937, Steinbach-Hallenberg), East German ski jumper; 1960 Squaw Valley Olympic champion, 1962 world champion, three-time Four Hills winner, first non-Scandinavian Holmenkollen champion (1957).
Henri Oreiller
Henri Oreiller (1925–1962), French alpine skier of CS Val d'Isère; double Olympic champion (downhill, combined) and bronze slalom at St. Moritz 1948, France's first Olympic ski champion; died racing a Ferrari at Linas-Montlhéry.
Henrik Harlaut
Henrik Harlaut, 'E-Dollo', Swedish freestyle skier born 1991 in Sollentuna; eight X Games golds, first nose butter triple cork 1620 (2013), Olympic big air bronze at Beijing 2022, withdrew from Milano Cortina 2026.
Herma Planck Szabo
Herma Planck Szabo (1902–1986) was an Austrian figure skater who won the first Olympic women's figure skating gold at Chamonix in 1924 and five world titles.
Hermann Maier
Hermann Maier, the Herminator, Austrian alpine ski racer born 1972; 54 World Cup wins, four overall titles, 1998 Nagano double gold after a famous downhill crash, 2001 motorcycle comeback.
Hilbert van der Duim
Hilbert van der Duim (born 1957, Beetsterzwaag) is a Dutch former long-track speed skater, world allround champion 1980 and 1982, European champion 1983 and 1984, known for the bird-droppings excuse and skating one lap too soon.
Hilde Gerg
Hilde Gerg is a German former alpine ski racer who won the 1998 Olympic slalom gold and bronze in the combined at Nagano, with 20 World Cup victories.
Hinari Asanuma
Hinari Asanuma (浅沼妃莉), Japanese snowboarder born 2002 in Iwate; won girls' big air gold at the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympics with 172.50 points and placed 7th in big air at the 2023 Bakuriani Worlds.
Hippolyt Kempf
Hippolyt Marcel Kempf, Swiss Nordic combined skier born 1965 in Lucerne; Olympic individual gold and team silver at Calgary 1988, team bronze 1994; first Swiss Olympic champion in Nordic combined; later Swiss-Ski Nordic sports head.
Hiroya Saito
Hiroya Saito (斎藤浩哉, born 1970), Japanese ski jumper for Snow Brand; won team large hill gold at Nagano 1998, two individual World Cup wins, and three World Championship medals.
Hiroyasu Shimizu
Hiroyasu Shimizu (清水宏保), born 1974 in Obihiro, Japan, is a retired long-track speed skater, 1998 Nagano Olympic 500 m gold medalist and first Japanese Olympic champion in speed skating, with four 500 m world records and five world titles. Not the alpine skier or MMA fighters of the same surname.
Hiroyuki Noake
Hiroyuki Noake (野明 弘幸), Japanese speed skater born 1974 in Suwa, Nagano; set the 1500 m world record 1:50.61 in Calgary in 1996 and placed seventh in the 1500 m at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.
History of skiing
The history of skiing runs from prehistoric hunting in northern Eurasia, with skis from about 7200 BC, to the organized competitive sport that emerged in nineteenth-century Norway.
Hjalmar Andersen
Hjalmar "Hjallis" Andersen (1923-2013), Norwegian speed skater, won three golds (1,500 m, 5,000 m, 10,000 m) at the 1952 Oslo Winter Olympics and the European and World all-round titles 1950-1952.
Holmenkollbakken
Holmenkollbakken is a large ski jumping hill in the Holmenkollen district of Oslo, Norway, with a K-point of 120 meters, hosting competitions since 1892 and the 1952 Winter Olympics.
Holmenkollmedaljen
Holmenkollmedaljen, Norway's highest skiing honor, instituted 1894 by Skiforeningen, first awarded 1895 to Victor Thorn; awarded for multi-year excellence in Nordic skiing and biathlon, first para recipient Nils-Erik Ulset in 2026.
Horst Hornlein
Horst Hörnlein (born 1945, Möhrenbach) is an East German former luger, 1972 Sapporo Olympic doubles gold medalist with Reinhard Bredow in a historic tie, later a bobsleigh coach for GDR, Britain, and FIBT.
Hubert Stevens
Hubert Stevens (John Hubert Stevens, 1890-1950), American bobsled driver from Lake Placid; won the first-ever Olympic two-man bobsleigh gold at the 1932 Lake Placid Games with brother Curtis, fourth in four-man in 1936.
Hubert Strolz
Hubert Strolz, Austrian alpine skier born 1962 in Warth, Vorarlberg; 1988 Calgary Olympic gold in combined and silver in giant slalom; later farmer, ski school director; father of Olympic champion Johannes Strolz.
Hugo Herrnhof
Hugo Herrnhof (born 1964, Bolzano, Italy), Italian short-track speed skater; Olympic gold in the men's 5,000 m relay at Lillehammer 1994 with Carnino, Fagone, and Vuillermin; later ISU Speed Skating Sports director.
Hurricane Ridge Ski and Snowboard Area
Hurricane Ridge Ski and Snowboard Area, run by the Hurricane Ridge Winter Sports Club, is a nonprofit ski area in Olympic National Park, Washington. Opened 1958, it has two rope tows and a Poma lift, no chairlifts, and lost its day lodge to fire in 2023.
Huw Nightingale
Huw William Harvey Nightingale (born 2001, Bolton, England) is a British snowboard cross rider; with Charlotte Bankes he won mixed team gold at Milan-Cortina 2026, Britain's first Olympic gold on snow, and the 2023 world title.
Hwang Dae Heon
Hwang Dae Heon (황대헌), South Korean short track speed skater born 1999 in Anyang; 2022 Olympic 1500m champion, 1000m world record holder (1:20.875), and two-time world 500m champion with five Olympic medals.
IBSF European Cup
The IBSF European Cup, historically called the Bob-Europacup, is the second-tier continental bobsleigh series run by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation exclusively on European tracks, feeding points into Olympic qualification.
IBSF Junior Bobsleigh World Championships
The IBSF Junior Bobsleigh World Championships are the IBSF's annual world title event for junior bobsleigh athletes under 26, held for men since 1987 and women since 2005.
IBSF North American Cup
The IBSF North American Cup is the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation's second-tier race series for bobsleigh and skeleton, held on North American tracks since 2006/07.
IBU Cup
The IBU Cup is the second tier of senior biathlon, one step below the World Cup, where rising athletes prove they are ready for the elite level.
Ice Capades
Ice Capades: American touring ice show revue, founded 1940, first performance June 16, 1940 in New Orleans; toured until 1997, owned by Dorothy Hamill 1991, rival of Ice Follies and Holiday on Ice.
Ice dance
Ice dance: a figure skating discipline for couples emphasizing rhythm, musicality, and footwork over jumps. Olympic medal event since Innsbruck 1976; world championship event since 1952; scored under the ISU judging system with Rhythm Dance and Free Dance programs.