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 Now that seems to have been replaced by ‘Try chatgpt.’ I thought I would try it and, by way of … Continue reading
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 Now that seems to have been replaced by ‘Try chatgpt.’ I thought I would try it and, by way of … Continue reading
Did Mrs Le Blond found a Ladies Ski Club?
Continue readingThe first British Ski Championship, Jan 6/7 1921
Continue readingIt’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 slalom; slush for the après midi skier and serious sunburn for those who forget … Continue reading
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 of darkness in order to avoid the mockery of their fellow Davonians. The Brangers’ … Continue reading
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 Chamonix and Zermatt. “The Matterhorn after all is not so fine a thing as … Continue reading
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, with an excursion to Kitzbühel for the Hahnenkamm (“much better gelaende”) between practice runs. … Continue reading
“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 two and kept at it until he was 96. But the words stare defiantly … Continue reading
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? In the last third of the 19th century arty consumptive types beat a path … Continue reading
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 to her, was a towering figure in the British ski holiday industry and remained … Continue reading