The sports it makes ski presented initially in Cyprus sometimes roughly in 1934, when it created a team of persons the first "club of mountaineering of" island. After World War II, the Ski club of Cyprus was created in 1947 and from then it has a main role in the growth it makes ski in the island. The first lift was supported and it functioned in the Eastern person of AM Olympus, while a second lift in 1951 in westwards the square Troodos (the rests of this lift, that it was supplied by the machine of lorry of crossing, they still can they are appeared).

After the independence of Cyprus in 1960, the club ski was developed in her modern form, with a Ski F ederation under the aegis, and four regional clubs. Until 1968, the mobile lifts that were used by the British army were used, but in 1968 the first lift that was gentleman from the club and three other followed.

Today many hundreds of Cypriote and perhaps so much a lot of enjoy the marvellous sports they make ski of each winter in the beautiful bents of AM Olympus. Make ski, with 60 his year plus the history in this island, it is here not only to remain, but it continues his increase.