Enter the Volant Spatula, a pure powder weapon released in 2002 as freeskiing legend Shane McConkey's brainchild. Thanks to the internet, the story and inspiration behind these incredible sticks ...

“Shane became what he was in part because ... after much lobbying from McConkey, with the Spatula, a ski initially scoffed at by some in the industry as looking like a water ski.

His name was Shane McConkey and he lived a wonderful life, until his tragic demise in 2009 in a skiing BASE jump that went wrong. Collecting years of archival footage, Red Bull, who sponsored the ...

I was snowboarding at Whistler Mountain in Vancouver last Thursday when I heard the news that big-mountain skier Shane McConkey had been killed in a ski BASE-jumping accident in Italy. Born in ...

A documentary on legendary skier Shane McConkey that brought more than 4,000 out to Squaw Valley earlier this month will make its South Shore debut next weekend. Peek Nightclub, inside Harrah’s ...

A memorial service for Shane McConkey will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday on the Olympic Plaza Sundeck (base of KT-22) at Squaw Valley USA. A gathering of McConkey’s friends will follow at 6: ...

VAIL, Colo. ” Legendary skier and former Vail, Colo. resident Shane McConkey died Thursday in a ski accident in Italy. He was 39. McConkey was attempting a cliff jump in the Italian Dolomites in ...

Legendary skier Shane McConkey died Thursday after he skied off an enormous cliff in the Italian Dolomites and his parachute didn’t open. Details of exactly what went wrong were sketchy at press ...

Ten years ago, young renegade ski racer Shane McConkey quit his collegiate team to pursue a career in the small, unglamorous world of freeskiing. Through the 90s, McConkey battled the odds and the ...