Copley/Hancock

Cityscape

Steep

Up on the rooftop

Maximum velocity

Until you see it in person, you can't grasp how frickin' fast the skiers are going when they leave the jump. And the sound is great -- the loud clackety racket of their skis on the ice changing to the sheet-in-the-wind WHOOSH as they go airborne....

Yes, it's true!

Despite the Olympic Committee refusing to acknowledge it, there actually are female ski-jumpers! Here's Nina Lussi, 2nd-place finisher in the women's division at the Harris Hill Ski Jump event...

Gaining speed