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Modern Day, Pre-Historic skiers

Rambo

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Was doing a little research on the evolution of skiing and ran across this stuff on modern day people in upper upper northwest China Altai and Mongolia where they still use ancient style skiis and single rudder pole. Quite interesting.

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A Warren Miller crew went to Altai China to check these guys out:

 
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