Segments & Ski Areas

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 an.. Read More

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 an.. Read More

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.. Read More

The singing legacy of the Trapp Family Singers, who favored Austrian independence from Germany and thus opted to flee the Nazi takeover of their country, is well known and documented; however, what is less known is that upon immigrating to the United.. Read More

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.. Read More

Explains and shows how Bill Lash, founder and first President of the Professional Ski Instructors Association of America (P.S.I.A.), started in 1987 the Veteran Ski Instructors Reunion to, as he says, recreate, “skiing together in the mountains, and .. Read More

Explains and shows how the 1936-37 winter sport season opened in America with the 1936 Winter Sport Shows at New York's Madison Square Garden and the Boston Garden, which together attracted over 200,000 spectators. The shows promoted America’s f.. Read More