Aleksander Aamodt Kilde Spotted on the Slopes More Than a Year After Injury

Originally posted on Powder | By Ian Greenwood | Last updated Aug 8, 2025 4:09 PM ET

Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, the Norwegian alpine racer who suffered a heavy crash in January 2024, and spent last winter on the World Cup sidelines, is back on the slopes per a recent social media post.

This week Kilde posted a series of photos from Galdhøpiggen, a summer ski center in Norway. The images showed a long line of ski racing gates. In one post from the Instagram story, Kilde wrote, “Let’s just say the conditions could be better,” adding a winking face emoji.

Ski racing’s main governing body, the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS), shared Kilde’s post, and positive comments flowed in.

“Welcome back!! Your hard work to get here is an inspiration!” read one comment.

“Let's go Alex Kilde we love you,” read another.

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Kilde crashed during a downhill event in Wengen, Switzerland, on January 13, 2024, injuring his shoulder. He hasn’t skied competitively since then, undergoing a series of shoulder surgeries, complicated by an infection. The required operations prompted him to sit out the entire 2024/2025 World Cup season.

Still, Kilde has managed to spend some time on the slopes.

In December 2024, the Vail Daily reported that he visited Beaver Creek, Colorado, mingling with his fellow racers and skiing. He was initially there to support his fiancée, American alpine racing superstar Mikaela Shiffrin, but she was also injured and unable to compete.

“It’s been a long journey,” Kilde said, according to the Vail Daily. “Actually, to be able to ski some turns today, that was emotional. It was beautiful, actually to be here.”

In February 2025, Kilde shared on social media that he’d undergone “a planned and (hopefully ) my last shoulder surgery.”

Kilde, according to Olympics.com, is hoping to ski competitively again at the first downhill event of next season in Beaver Creek. If everything goes to plan, he could qualify for the upcoming 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics.

The Norwegian isn’t unfamiliar with the highest level of ski racing competition. He won two Olympic medals, one silver and one bronze, in Beijing, China, in 2022.