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She doesn’t want her chair to be an obstacle to those things, so she has a motto: improvise, adapt and overcome.

Eva von Flotow wants to see greater accessibility in Whitehorse and other Yukon communities

Tyler Nichol has made trails across the Yukon and B.C., including at the Vancouver Winter Olympics

Tim Sellars looks back at his volunteer work on Mount Sima and elsewhere

The Coaches Cup Race, sanctioned by International Ski Federation known as FIS, kicks of at Whitehorse's Mount Sima on Friday and runs until Saturday afternoon. It's the first time Mount Sima will place host to this event.

Skiing has grown more popular drawing more traffic to resorts. Here are seven remote ski areas to add to your bucket list.

The mother said her son, as well as his grandfather, whom he was with on the chairlift, are “well, even if we may be a bit nervous about the chairlift in the future,” she wrote in an email to CBC News.

The incident was captured on video, showing a child hanging from a ski lift, about 15 to 20 feet from the ground, while bystanders gathered below and successfully prevented any injuries.

The alpine ski hill closed early on Saturday afternoon due to extreme wind conditions.

Whitehorse's small ski hill is now a well-kept secret training place for professional athletes and their coaches from around the world, seeking early season snow as the climate warms.