29-year-old Rainer Schoenfelder didn't know he was being photographed as he skied down the Lauberhorn wearing only an orange helmet and yellow boots. The Austrian skier and world-cup racer, who had been experiencing pain since his crash in Turracher Hoehe, Austria, promised his physiotherapist that, if his pains eased up by January 9, 2007, he would ski naked. They did. So he did.

After losing a bet with his physiotherapist, Austrian World Cup skier Rainer Schoenfelder went on a naked ski run on Wednesday alongside the famed Lauberhorn downhill course. The 29-year-old Austrian skier vowed to ski naked if his pains had lessened by Wednesday morning. Schoenfelder hurt his neck and back in a crash last week and lost the bet with his physiotherapist, who had been treating his injuries.

British company SNO!zone is offering a white Christmas on auction site eBay to raise money for charity. SNO!zone, which operates three indoor ski slopes, promises to deliver a 10-ton truck loaded with snow on Christmas Eve. Winner of the auction will also get a decorated Christmas three, a front door wreath and Christmas lights.

A former Winter Olympian won first place at the seventh annual North American Wife Carrying Championship. John Farra, who carried his 110-pound wife Tess won her weight in beer and five times her weight in cash, or $550 reports the AP.

Austrian ski instructors in Arlberg region have agreed to bare it all after students ask them to release a naked calendar. It was reported that 24 male and female instructors stripped their clothes off and braved the Alpine cold over 6,000 feet above sea level to pose for the Ski Instructors Calendar.