The Rax Ski is an Austrian invention that promises to act like ‘an ice skate on hard pack snow or like a surf-board in powder.’ The skis are far shorter than usual and there’s no tail, just a couple of fins – they’re more like flippers than skis.
They seem to be most useful when skiing obscenely steep slopes but promise as much performance on traditional piste. If you fancy yourself as a maverick freeskier then a pair will cost you $320.