Thousands of years before the invention of the wheel, humans in northern areas fabricated skis as means of transport over deep snow. Skiing as a sport was described as early as 1555, but only materialized in any organized sense in the 19th century in Norway. The division of skiing into the so-called Nordic and Alpine disciplines occurred in the first half of the 20th century, and it is only since the 1960s that Nordic skiing in the U.S. reached anything resembling popularity.
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