“Doug’s story fits in perfectly with our mission to celebrate the human spirit and tell incredible tales of survival, heroism, endurance and adventure,” Outside chairman Larry Burke said in a ...

I’m not exactly certain when I first learned of Doug Coombs, but when I sift through my memory a video clip emerges. The footage is shot from a helicopter hovering alongside a mountaintop buried in ...

Doug Coombs, who was revered in the high-altitude world of extreme skiing for his perilous, pioneering runs and who was also a guide and teacher to many who pursue the sport, died Monday in an ...

On April 3, 2006, Doug Coombs fell over 1,000 feet after skiing off the ledge of the French Alps in La Grave, France. Coombs died attempting to save his friend, Chad VanderHam, who had fallen first.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The late, legendary Doug Coombs, a former Montana State University ski racer, is being inducted ...

That smile. Who could forget that smile? Aspen local Scott Nichols has albums of photos detailing his adventures with legendary extreme skier Doug Coombs. In January and February 1992, Nichols spent ...

The focus of “Steep,” a new documentary about big-mountain skiing that opens Friday at the Nuart Theatre in West Los Angeles, changed dramatically when Doug Coombs, one of the athletes profiled in the ...

Bedford High School graduate and world-renowned ski mountaineer Doug Coombs died last week in an accident while skiing with three friends in the French Alps. He was 48 years old. The accident occurred ...

Extreme skier Doug Coombs, 48, a mountaineer and guide from Jackson Hole, Wyo., died Monday in the French Alps after slipping and falling over a cliff while trying to aid a friend who had plunged over ...

Aspen, CO Colorado Aspen’s Elizabeth Oakes often stares back uphill after her skis come to rest. She expects to see her close friend and mentor flashing his unforgettable smile, following in her ...

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of the incredible National Geographic documentary Free Solo, which chronicles the first free solo climb of El Capitan’s 3,000-foot wall in Yosemite, comes another extreme-sports ...