Skiing History ·
Roger Bushell – cross-country ski champion
Finally got around to reading Paul Brickhill’s account of The Great Escape, after watching the film umpteen times. The book is often described as a novel,…
Skiing History ·
AI: Artificial Inaccuracy
Until recently, when a question came up for debate or dispute in our house, the cry went up: ‘Google it!’. Now that seems to have been…
Skiing ·
Women’s Day
Did Mrs Le Blond found a Ladies Ski Club?
Skiing ·
A piste of history
The first British Ski Championship, Jan 6/7 1921
Skiing ·
Race day at Crans Montana
It’s a typical Crans Montana morning: dazzling. The confident forecast is hard and fast racing conditions for the early starters in the Momentum City Ski Championships…
Skiing ·
Skiing by night – a darkmotif
It is a small detail, rarely omitted from the story. The brothers Branger, Tobias and Johann, ski pioneers in Davos c1890, conducted their experiments under cover…
Skiing ·
St Moritz in winter: too good to be true?
Winter sports is a competitive business, and rivalry has been a powerful spur to its development. In the early days of alpinism the arch rivals were…
Skiing ·
Mr Smith’s Olympics
The Atlantic magazine of May 1936 published the journal of American ski racer Robert Livermore who travelled to the Alps for the Winter Olympics at Garmisch,…
Skiing ·
Peter Lunn and the psychology of ski racing
“The longer one has skied the less one enjoys it.” This may seem a surprising assertion from a man who began skiing at the age of…
Skiing ·
Skiing’s Literary Locations
Davos is the reading-man’s ski resort. How many times have I packed and started its set text The Magic Mountain, and nodded off on the train?…
Austria ·
Erna Low: Aiming High by Mark Frary
I’ve been enjoying a preliminary dip in to Mark Frary’s biography of Erna Low, Aiming High. Miss Low, as I was brought up respectfully to refer…