Explains and shows how under the leadership of Professor Kruckenhauser (1934 to 1973, except for during World War II, when he served as a photographer on the Eastern Fronts) Austria’s National Sports Home, the Bundessportheim on St. Christoph am Arlberg, became the world’s recognized center of  snow sports’, particularly alpine skiing, study, practice, and development. Whereas Hannes Schneider had widely been regarded as the God of Austrian skiing, Kruckenhauser came to be known as the Skipabst, the pope of Austrian skiing. In addition to administering the Bundessportheim for thirty plus years, he also: pioneered the use of photography and film to analyze skiing, created and then marketed his famous wedeln technique, established and maintained innumerable international contacts, many of whom requested  Austrian certified instructors, and started Interski, a international gathering, now held every four years, at which the latest ski technique and ski instruction methods are presented and discussed for and among ski instructor associations from throughout the world.  Professor Kruckenhauser’s legacy is told in part by Woerner Woerndle, Ski Austria Academy director and former Austrian Ski Team Coach.

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Explains and shows how the Austrian ski racer and pioneer resort developer Friedl Pfeifer started the Pro Racing circuit in the 1960s by recruiting  top ski racers of the day, many of them Austrians, such as Pepi Gramshammer, Ernst Hinterseer, Hias Leitner, Anderl Molterer, Christian Pravda, and Toni Spiss, who went on to win innumerable pro races.

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Explains and shows how under the leadership of Sepp Ruschp (1930s-1960s), and his prominent Austrian ski instructor recruits,  Mt. Mansfield in Stowe, Vermont became “The Ski Capital of the East”.  This story is told in part by Johannes von Trapp, youngest of the famous Trapp Family Singers, who resided in Stowe and knew Sepp and his Austrian ski instructor recruits, and Othmar Schneider, the Austrian Olympic Champion, who for years graced the slopes of Mt. Mansfield as one of Stowe’s star instructors and race coaches.

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Explains and shows how Sun Valley, one of the Americas’ first grand ski destinations, built to resemble a European ski resort and site of the world’s first chairlift, attracted Hollywood glamour in part by featuring a world-renowned ski school led and staffed for years by top-flight Austrian skiers; such as: Hans Hauser, Friedl Pfeifer, Otto Lang, Sigi Engl, Sepp Froehlich, Konrad Staudinger and Hans Muehlegger. This story, which includes the internment of some of the Austrian Sun Valley instructors during World War II, is told in part by Friedl Pfeifer, Otto Lang, and Konrad Staudinger, as well as Bill Lash, a former Sun Valley resident, and founder and first president of the Professional Ski Instructors of American Association.

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Explains and shows how Sun Valley, one of the Americas’ first grand ski destinations, built to resemble a European ski resort and site of the world’s first chairlift, attracted Hollywood glamour in part by featuring a world-renowned ski school led and staffed for years by top-flight Austrian skiers; such as Hans Hauser, Friedl Pfeifer, Otto Lang, Sigi Engl, Sepp Froehlich, Konrad Staudinger and Hans Muehlegger. This story, which includes the internment of some of the Austrian Sun Valley instructors during World War II, is told in part by Friedl Pfeifer, Otto Lang, and Konrad Staudinger, as well as Bill Lash, a former Sun Valley resident, and founder and first president of the Professional Ski Instructors of American Association.

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Explains and shows how in the late 1930s the well known Austrian racer Hannes Schroll, along with the help of the area’s first ski school director - the Austrian Bill Klein, convinced well heeled celebrities and families, such as Walt Disney, and the Hills of the Great Northern Railway fortune, to invest in the development of the Sugar Bowl just above Donner Pass, not far from Lake Tahoe and within driving and train range of San Francisco, and Reno. Thereafter for a number of decades the Sugar Bowl was the premier Californian ski resort as its many top-flight Austrian ski instructors, racers and coaches attracted many a skier while creating a sterling reputation for skiing excellence and Austrian style après-ski conviviality. This segment is told in part by Bill Klein, long time Sugar Bowl ski school director and ski shop owner in both the Sugar Bowl and San Francisco, and Ernst Hager, former Sugar Bowl instructor and later U.S. Women's Ski Team Coach.

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Explains and shows how and why the Austrian racer and hotelier Pepi Gramshammer was instrumental in helping Dick Hausermann,  Bob Parker, Pete Seibert, and Morrie Sheperd, successfully develop Vail. The story is told mainly by Pepi, the Austrian racer, instructor and hotelier of Gasthof Gramshammer,  who was hired in the early 1960s to be Vail’s official ambassador to the public and media. Since then Pepi and his hotel have in many ways become fixtures in and symbols of and for Vail.

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