The majority of censuses view skiing as the sport of heavy winter coats, pounds of equipment, and shivering in the freezing winds of ski lifts. On top of that, racing down mountains at high speed is also associated with an addictive adrenaline rush, as well as hurtling down corridors, dropping off cliffs, and jumping out of a helicopter into 3 feet of powder. For ordinary people who fall in love with the sport, skiing is surely much more than that. Skiing is a communion with nature and spirit, and the true essence of skiing is the personal relationship that those selected develop with the experience. For Scandinavian society, skiing is more than a sport, fulfilling both a political and civil role. It cannot be detached from the ideological and social contexts of the time, in particular nationalism. The oldest and most accurate recorded evidence of skiing was found in modern-day Norway and Sweden. The first primitive drawings were found at Rody, in the Nordland region of Norway and dated to 5,000 BCE, depicting a skier with a single pole. The first primitive ski was found in the Hoting Marshes, Sweden, and dates back to around 4,500 or 2,500 BC. Dating from 1010, an archaic ski was found in a Norse settlement near Nanortalik, Greenland, by Joel Berglund. He described it as a piece of wood 85 cm long and is believed to be the oldest ski in Greenland brought by the Normans in 980 AD. Skiing began to develop in many countries around the world at the end of the 19th century, long after Scandinavian societies. . Norway already had a long tradition in this sport and had military troops on skis since the mid-18th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, during a period of internment...... middle of paper ......ons on society and on the foundations of legitimate power (Morales, Yves). In the eyes of the Scandinavians, they invented skiing as a modern sport and pursued a policy mixing conservatism and nationalism, which turned out to be isolationism. The desire to seek and conquer the polar extremes, as well as the interior glaciers of Greenland, is part of Scandinavian polar history, so much so that it can be called a national characteristic (Goksøyr, Matti). In a recent book by Tor Bomann-Larsen, he cites Evige sne, the opening of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, as representative of how Scandinavian national culture, as the country developed into a nation-state, was a culture in in which snow, and therefore skiing, became a catalytic factor. who gave the Scandinavian nations their unique character, purity and right to independence.