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	Sondre Norheim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sondre Norheim (June 10, 1825–March 9, 1897) was the pioneer of modern skiing.
		Born and raised in Morgedal in Telemark, he became a master of downhill skiing, both in terms of skills and in developing equipment, like bindings and skis with curved sides to facilitate turns.
		In 1884, Sondre moved to USA with his family, living the last part of his life in North Dakota.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sondre_Norheim (159 words)

	IN-FORUM
		Norheim was born June 10, 1825, on the Overbo farm near the town of Morgedal in south-central Norway.
		Sondre Norheim had an active and creative mind, a playful nature, and was exceptionally daring.
		Norheim became a folk hero by not only skiing more than 100 miles to participate in the competition, but also by winning the event that was comprised of ski jumping, cross-country and the slalom.
	www.in-forum.com /articles/printer.cfm?id=78508 (1182 words)

	Vest-Telemark museum
		Sondre and his brother Eivind moved to their grandparents at Øverbø, and lived there until their father remarried.
		Sondre Norheim made his equipment and skiing technique known far beyond Telemark county.
		Sondre was invited to one of the first ski-competitions.
	vest-telemark.museum.no /article/view/204/1/22 (605 words)

	Free Your Heels Free Your Mind \| MySmartChannels
		Sondre was also a fairly inventive sort, having built a ski jump that launched him off the roof of the family farmhouse.
		Later, as an adult, Sondre Norheim developed the first short skis (only eight feet long, at a time when ten to twelve feet was the norm) and the first skis with sidecut (wide tip, narrow waist, wide tails), a concept that was crucial in making skis that would turn easily and smoothly.
		Sondre Norheim’s idea of making the tip and tail of the ski wider than the waist was carried to new extremes on both Alpine and Nordic skis, culminating in the extreme sidecut of today's shaped skis.
	myst-technology.com /mysmartchannels/public/item/11643 (1098 words)

	history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Norheim developed the telemark turn not as a new racing technique but for a practical perpouse, he needed a better way to control the edges of his skies on the hills of the region.
		Norheim thought that it would be more useful useful to develop a type of stem turn that could help control the sledge in the deep snow.
		Norheim moved to America and the telemark turn disappeared from the European mountains because skiers in the Alps favored the parallel turn on the steep inclines.
	people.westminstercollege.edu /students/amc0923/index2.html (451 words)

	I.S.H.A. Bulletin Board
		Sondre Norheim, The Father Of Modern Skiing is authored by Anne-Gry Blikom and Eivind Molde, originators of the Sondre web site www.sondrenorheim.com.
		Sondre Norheim introduced the new equipment and style, and he played a crucial role as skiing during the late 19th century changed from utility into enjoyment and sports.
		This book tells the life story of Sondre, his struggles as a poor Telemark cotter and his wild and acrobatic skiing in the hills of his home village Morgedal.
	www.skiinghistory.org /norheimbook.html (340 words)

	Skiing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Originally used primarily for transportation, skiing evolved into a popular recreational and competitive activity during the 20th century.
		Although skiing probably evolved gradually from snowshoeing, Norwegian Sondre Norheim is often called the "father of modern skiing".
		Sondre Norheim invented bindings that enabled the skier to do turns while skiing down hills, this form of skiing was called Slalom by Norheim and his contemparies.
	www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Skiing (1279 words)

	The cradle of skiing (Norway - the official site in Macedonia)
		It was the people of Telemark county in south Norway, headed by Sondre Norheim, who in the 1870s and 1880s revived interest in skiing as a sport.
		Sondre Norheim, born in the valley of Morgedal in 1825, ended 4,000 years of tradition by using stiff ski bindings.
		Sondre Norheim was regarded by his contemporaries as an unparalleled master of the art of skiing.
	www.norway.org.mk /culture/sports/cradle/cradle.htm (564 words)

	Telemark skiing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Telemark is a type of skiing that originates from the technique first developed by Sondre Norheim.
		Unlike Alpine skiing equipment, the telemark ski has a binding that only connects the boot to the ski at the toes, just as in cross-country skiing.
		The telemark turn came to the attention of the Norwegian public in 1868, when Sondre Norheim took part in a ski competition, impressing with his ability to turn so easily and fluidly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Telemark_skiing (1080 words)

	Alpenglow Ski History - Halvor Kleppen - Telemark Skiing, Norway's Gift to the World
		Sondre Norheim was born on June 10, 1825, on the tenant farm of Overbo.
		Norheim won handily, even though he was past his prime.
		Norheim's skis were wide, made of pine, and without a groove underneath.
	www.alpenglow.org /ski-history/notes/book/kleppen-1986.html (2240 words)

	Telemark Resurgence Continues - First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Most ski historians credit Sondre Norheim with invention of the telemark turn, named for the mountainous province where the farmer and ski jumper lived.
		Norheim, scrambling around the mountains using the long, straight and heavy boards of that era, felt that he needed more control and maneuverability, according to Lou Dawson's "Wild Snow," a history of ski mountaineering.
		Norheim also used the stable telemark position to land Nordic-style jumps.
	www.firsttracksonline.com /telemark.shtm (1570 words)

	Ravalli Republic Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sondre Norheim is generally credited with "inventing" what later came to be known as Telemarking in the 1860s.
		Norheim, it is said, wasn't content with skiing just for transportation and started doing it more for fun.
		Such skis, similar to the design Norheim pioneered more than a century before, are side cut - wider at the tips and narrower in the center - and have a softer flex than modern Alpine skis.
	www.ravallinews.com /articles/2005/03/14/bitterroot/54-outdoors.txt (1329 words)

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		Sondre and his older brother were sent to live with their grandparents at _verbø until their father remarried.
		Norheim struggled to make ends meet and, when he was 59, moved the family to Minnesota to join two children who had already emigrated there.
		Sondre Norheim died on March 9, 1897, at the age of 71 and was buried in an unmarked grave west of the farm.
	www.prairiepublic.org /programs/datebook/bydate/05/0205/020905.jsp (756 words)

	Sondre
		Sondre was only two, and Eivind just four years old when they lost their mother.
		Sondre noticed her in the hills, silently watching his daring snow dances.
		Sondre died March 9, 1897 and was buried out on the prairie near Denbigh.
	www.sondrenorheim.com /sondre.htm (1672 words)

	Tip to Tale: Bindings
		Sondre Norheim, in particular, is generally credited for giving sport skiing its initial downhill shove by inventing the very first heel binding which he designed using tree roots.
		Norheim’s Osier binding would continue to set the style for sport skiing until the late 1890s when a series of newly patented ski bindings lead to the development of Fritz Huitfeldt’s toe iron.
		Although sport skiing in the late 1890s had already begun to attract recreational skiers, rope tows and ski lifts had yet to be invented.
	www.aspenhistory.org /tipchp3.html (2349 words)

	RipSaw News \| The News & Entertainment Weekly of the Twin Ports \| Adventure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In the late 1800s, Sondre Norheim fathered the Telemark turn after landing a 76-foot jump at a competition in Norway.
		Sondre was from the county of Telemark, hence the name of the sport.
		Despite the fact that the Telemark turn was developed a century earlier, it was not until the 1970s that backcountry skiers in Crested Butte, Col. reintroduced the skill to America.
	www.ripsawnews.com /December13_2000/adventure.html (1078 words)

	Chronology timeline, North American ski mountaineering backcountry skiing
		Sondre Norheim and friends begin to refine the skidded stop turns and the telemark turn, named for Norheim's home region, Telemark.
		Sondre Norheim of Morgedal, Telemark, makes a binding heel strap out of a twisted willow root, thus allowing more lateral control, and allowing his group of skiers from Telemark Norway to make powerful turns with both stem (Christiania) and telemark technique.
		Sondre Norheim and other skiers from the Telemark region of Norway demonstrate the Christiania skidded stop turn (could be called a "parallel" turn), and what is later called the telemark turn, in an exhibition competition.
	www.wildsnow.com /chronology/timeline_table.html (9751 words)

	Dobbiaco Toblach Skischule Schischule Scuola sci fondo Azzurra Langlauf Hochpustertal Alta Pusteria Pustertal Val ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Telemark was discovered in 1886 by Sondre Auerson Norheim, a farmer’s son from Morgeddal, in the Norwegian region of Telemark.
		Norheim later emigrated to America to teach his Telemark style even there.
		At the beginning of the twentieth century, Telemark slowly died out in the world, except in Norway where the technique has continued to be practised without interruption.
	www.azzurra-ski.com /en/en_telemark.htm (217 words)

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		Ironically, the father of telemarking, Norwegian ski legend Sondre Norheim, had exactly the opposite in mind when he added a heel strap to skis sometime in the early 1840s.
		Norheim, who grew up in Telemark County south of Oslo, was tired of shuffling through deep snow on skis fastened to the foot with merely a toe-strap - the predecessor of today's cross-country skis.
		Instead of just shuffling along, Norheim and other early ski enthusiasts began scaling hills and gliding past trees in elegant wide curves.
	www.tahoe.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=VA&Date=20021228&Category=SPORTS&ArtNo=212270201&Ref=AR&AvisData=VD (3567 words)

	Nordic News - New Tele History - Tuesday, February 17, 2004
		A new book (Sondre Norheim, The Father of Modern Skiing, by Anne-Gry Blikom and Eivind Molde) explains that tele skiing developed in the Norwegian county of Telemark.
		Norheim introduced both new equipment and this new style, changing skiing from the utilitarian (“Well, it gets you from A to B”) into a sport (“Hey, I can turn!”).
		Late in the 19th century, Norheim and his family emigrated from the village of Morgedal to North Dakota, where he’s buried.
	www.onthesnow.com /news/nordic/021704-11150.html (224 words)

	Winter Times 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Things changed, however, in the mid-19th century, when a Norwegian named Sondre Norheim, an adventurous young man from the village of Morgedal in the rural province of Telemark, developed a novel, "bending down" turning technique.
		Norheim, whom Norwegians regard as the father of modern skiing, made his own skis and liked to ski off the roof of the family home.
		Norheim's "heel-free" turning technique gained popularity after it was introduced in Christiania, now called Oslo, in the 1860s, with the name Telemark attached.
	newtimes.rway.com /2005/winter05/telemark.shtml (1172 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		Sondre Norheim is considered to be the father of modern skiing in Norway.
		Shortly after Sondre Norheim and his friends from Telemark skied from Morgedal to Christiania (Oslo), where the world’s first ski school was established in the city.
		Skiing's popularity proceeded to spread rapidly, and by the end of the century had reached North America, Australia, New Zealand, and the rest of Europe.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/history_uk.asp?DiscCode=NC&sportCode=SI (428 words)

	Karin Evensen's Skiing Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The first Norwegian skis were brought to the United States by emigrant who crossed the Atlantic as early as 1825.
		Sondre Norheim was among those who promoted the sport of skiing in the United States when he emigrated in 1884.
		A well known story in Norway is that of the Birkebeiners (Birchlegs) who in 1296 saved the two-year old prince Haakon Haakonsson from his pursuers - the so-called baglere and became national heroes.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~kevensen/Skiing.htm (399 words)

	Welcome to Morgedal Campsite
		The village is known as "The Cradle of Skiing", thanks to Sondre Nordheim, the father of modern skiing, who was born and lived here.
		Norsk Skieventyr: Skiing museum and multimedia show taking you on a journey through the history of skiing.
		There is alike size replica of Sondre Nordheim's home and many interesting artefacts.
	home.online.no /~halvobja/indexeng.htm (390 words)

	Teton Gravity Research Forums - skiing civilizations
		Sondre Norheim, a Norwegian, invented the first stiff Bindings.
		In 1868 Sondre Norheim, from the Telemark region of Norway, broke all records in Christiana (Oslo).
		The "Father of Modern Skiing" had added a willow strap around the heel and contoured his skis so that they were slightly waisted in the middle.
	www.tetongravity.com /forums/printthread.php?t=26469 (1736 words)

	C19 - history of skiing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Whether or not it qualifies as the first ski club (skis were occasionally referred to as Snow Shoes at the time), the Alturas Snow Shoe Club was to play a pioneering role in the development of skiing and ski racing.
		Christiania turn and parallel stop perfected by Sondre Norheim, from Telemark in Norway.
		Norheim is also credited with inventing the Telemark turn.
	www.ifyouski.com /Information/History/C19 (389 words)

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