Sz 42 (US Men's 8.5) 1970s Ballangrud Speed Skates from *Norway*Ivar Ballangrud was a Norwegian speed skater who won a whopping 3 gold medals in the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany. After retirement he worked in sporting goods retail, and lent his name to a successful brand of speed skates. These are an example of them, which we picked up from an estate sale guy in Bergen. While we are not speed skating experts, we reckon that this pair hails from the 1970s or so based on our watching a few

but the camber and length are similar

Can't help you with the boots though - that might take some searching or creative innovation

would you look at these poles

plastic or rubber sole boots

along with well-preserved metal ring baskets which were the norm in both alpine and cross-county skiing until the early 60s

fast skis with different cambers for different snow conditions

Eide Skistavfabrikk (ski pole factory) was a leading maker of ski poles in Norway in the 1960s and 1970s

and is comprised of a million islands

These bindings hail from around 1960

which thrived for 70 years until it was (figuratively) steamrolled by the fiberglass ski revolution of the 1970s

metal edge torpedoes that basically do all the work for you

only a couple of mm wider than modern racing skis