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Chinese Downhill

Guards overlook a ski lift at the summit Chang Cheng Ling Ski Resort, Fulong Chongli Four Season Resort in Chongli China. Chinese Downhill. January 2018. A five-hour bus ride north of Beijing lies Chongli, the site of many of the alpine events in the 2022 winter Olympics. A once quiet rural village, the arid land is being terra-formed into a resort community with a cluster of multi-billion dollar ski resorts covered white by machine-made snow. A new bullet train will bring the growing numbers of Chinese skiers --projected to be 100 million by 2022-- to the slopes in less than an hour. Kari Medig visited the region for Outside magazine with writer Tim Neville to look at China's burgeoning ski scene.

Chinese Downhill.

A ski instructor on a ski simulator at Fulong Chongli Four Season Resort, Chang Cheng Ling Ski Resort near Chongli, China. Chinese Downhill. January 2018. A five-hour bus ride north of Beijing lies Chongli, the site of many of the alpine events in the 2022 winter Olympics. A once quiet rural village, the arid land is being terra-formed into a resort community with a cluster of multi-billion dollar ski resorts covered white by machine-made snow. A new bullet train will bring the growing numbers of Chinese skiers --projected to be 100 million by 2022-- to the slopes in less than an hour. Kari Medig visited the region for Outside magazine with writer Tim Neville to look at China's burgeoning ski scene.