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Skiing has a history of almost five millennia. Although modern skiing has evolved from beginnings in Scandinavia, it may have been practiced as early as 600 BC in what is now China. The word ski is one of a handful of words Norway has exported to the international community.
Skiing as recreation. 1  1849: First public ski tour organized in Trondheim, Norway. 2  1868: Mountain resorts became commercially viable when city-dwellers could reach them in winter by train. 3  1901 : First skiing in the PyrÃ©nÃ©es on January 29 at La Llagonne (PyrÃ©nÃ©es-Orientales, France). 4  1910: first rope tow.