ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 4月24日 03時42分

Horse hair lines the bottom of traditional skis made in China’s Altai Mountains; the hair provides traction that keeps skiers from slipping on the snow while traveling uphill. Ethnic minorities like the Mongols and Kazakhs who’ve long lived in the northern tip of China’s Xinjiang region — a wedge of territory that pokes up between Mongolia to the east and Kazakhstan to the west — grew up on these skis, just as their ancestors did before them. Cave paintings even suggest that skiing may have originated here in the Altai Mountains, instead of the Scandinavian mountains that have long been considered its cradle. In 2006, an ethnic Han historian announced as much at a news conference in Beijing, claiming that China was the “original place for human skiing.” There’s no consensus that any of the ethnic groups of the Altai Moutains can stake a claim as the rightful heirs of the painted skiers, but locals bristle at the idea that the sport could be claimed as the history of China, the country to which they owe their citizenship rather than the ethnic bloodlines to which they owe their heritage. Garrett Grove photographed this traditional ski while on assignment for @nytimessports in northern Xinjiang. We’ll be sharing more photos of China’s Stone Age skiers this #nytweekender. #?

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