2024/25 ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Cup: Preview, schedule, and how to watch the SkiMo season live
From mid-December to mid-April, you can catch live SkiMo action on the Olympic Channel via Olympics.com. Discover the key dates, venues, and the athletes to watch as the sport prepares for its debut at Milano Cortina 2026.
Ski Mountaineering
The 22nd edition of the ISMF Ski Mountaineering (SkiMo) World Cup season is here.
From the opener in Courchevel, France, in mid-December to the Finals in Tromsø, Norway, in April, the world’s top SkiMo athletes will compete across nine World Cup stops in eight countries.
The calendar features the World Cup debut of Shahdag, Azerbaijan, in January and the Olympic test event in Bormio, Italy, in February.
France’s Thibaud Anselmet and Emily Harrop are the reigning overall and sprint champions, while Italy finished last season atop the mixed relay rankings. Sprint and mixed relays are the two events in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 programme. The other SkiMo disciplines, not part of the Olympic programme, are the individual race, the vertical race, and the team event.
From 2 to 9 March, Morgins, Switzerland, will host the 2025 World Championships, where Olympic quotas will be directly allocated.
Scroll down for the key dates and venues of the 2024/25 ISMF World Cup.
ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Cup 2024/25: Athletes to watch
Last season, France, Switzerland, and Italy—in that order—were the top-scoring countries in the World Cup nation rankings.
French athletes dominated the overall standings: on the men’s side, Thibaut Anselmet retained the title for the second consecutive year, finishing ahead of Belgium’s Maximilien Drion Du Chapois in second and Switzerland’s Rémi Bonnet in third. Emily Harrop secured her third straight women’s overall World Cup title, followed by teammate Célia Perillat-Pessey in second and Italy’s Alba De Silvestro in third.
Anselmet and Harrop also claimed the globe in the sprint: “This season, the idea is really to step up another level in the Olympic events, the sprint and the relay,” Harrop said in an exclusive interview with Olympics.com. “I plan to save energy to focus on those events.”
At the last World Championships in Boí Taüll, Spain, Harrop and Anselmet teamed up to win gold in the mixed relay, with Italy’s Giulia Murada and Nicolò Ernesto Canclini taking silver, and fellow French athletes Axelle Gachet-Mollaret and Robin Galindo completing the podium.
In the individual sprint events, Spain’s Oriol Cardona Coll claimed gold ahead of Anselmet, who took silver, and Galindo, who earned bronze. Slovakia’s Marianna Jagerčíková won the women’s sprint title, finishing ahead of Switzerland’s Marianne Fatton in second and Harrop in third.
2024/25 ISMF Ski Mountaineering season: The qualification path to Milano Cortina 2026
The qualification period for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, where ski mountaineering will make its Olympic debut with two events—the sprint and the mixed relay, runs from 1 November 2024 to 21 December 2025.
Note: National Olympic Committees (NOC) have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective countries at the Winter Olympic Games.
2024/25 ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Cup: Schedule, venues and dates
- Courchevel (FRA)
14 December 2024: Sprint
15 December 2024: Vertical - Shahdag (AZE)
10 January 2025: Sprint
11 January 2025: Vertical
13 January 2025: Individual - Arinsal – La Massana (AND)
25 January 2025: Individual
26 January 2025: Mixed Relay - Boi Taull (ESP)
1 February 2025: Sprint
2 February 2025: Mixed Relay - Bormio – MiCo2026 Test Event (ITA)
22 February 2025: Sprint
23 February 2025: Mixed Relay - Schladming (AUT)
14 March 2025: Vertical
15 March 2025: Sprint - Val Martello (ITA)
20 March 2025: Individual
22 March 2025: Mixed Relay - Villars-sur-Ollon (SUI)
4 April 2025: Mixed Relay
5 April 2025: Sprint - Tromsø (NOR)
10 April 2025: Vertical
12 April 2025: Sprint
13 April 2025: Individual
How to watch the 2024/25 ISMF Ski Mountaineering season on Olympic Channel
World Cups and the World Championships will be streamed live on the Olympic Channel via Olympics.com. (Territorial restrictions may apply)
Competitions will also be shown on the ISMF YouTube channel, Eurosport, CBC Canada, RTVE, and other national TV channels.
Viewers will have the opportunity to watch live action from almost every World Cup stop throughout the season. The full replay with English commentary will be available on the channel after the event.