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Fourth Issue 2009, December, Vol 21 #4 
Cover: 1930 poster promotes the Austrian Alps. 20"x30" reproduction available from missski.com (866) 849-5056..
Readers Respond
Dexter Chafee on Bud Phillips' 1950 fiberglass ski; Ales Gucek on
the 10th Mountain Division in Slovenia's Julian Alps, 1945; Peter Shelton
on the most influential skiers; Paul MacArthur on early snowboard patents.
The Short, Sweet Life of Hannes Schroll in America by
Morten Lund
The freespirited Austrian fireball was fast on the course and had the
chutzpah to invent California's Sugar Bowl.
The Oldest Continuous Floating Ski Racer of the All
by Burton Hersh
No one raced longer or more ferociously than Austria's Christian Pravda.
Yuichiro Miura: King of the Seven Summits by Paul J.
MacArthur
The Man Who Skied Everest is still climbing -- he summited Everest at
age 70 and plans to do it again at 80.
U.S. Hall of Fame Names Eight 2009 Inductees
by Tom West
Honored this year: Jack Benedick, Stu Campbell, Doug Coombs, Paul Robbins,
Sepp Kober, Ansten Samuelstuen, Chris Wadell and Sarah Will.
Extreme's Father and Son by John Fry
Jim and Shane McConkey's daredevilry defined the 50-year evolution of
a new kind of skiing. Photos by Fred Lindholm, Scott Markewitz, Hank DeVre
and Hans Gmoser.
Hans Kraus: The Skiers' Doctor by Gretchen Rous Besser,
Ph.D.
Turning to medicine after a mountaineering tragedy, he proved that skier
injuries could be remedied by exercise rather than by plaster.
The Incredible Emile Cochand by Chas Maclean Cochand
with Morten Lund and Doug Pfeiffer
The first pro ski instructor to arrive in North America, this extraordinary
Swiss founded the continent's first professional ski school and created
its first ski resort.
Chuck Ferries: Rail Rider by Seth Masia
He ran away to Alta at 16, and remains the only American to win the Hahnenkamm
slalom. And then he mastered the American ski equipment industry.
Skier's Bookshelf
Portillo: The Spirit of the Andes, by Henry Purcell. Reviewed
by John Fry: "A coffee table book that sk aficionados around the
world will want to own."
Hahnenkamm: The Chronicle of a Myth, by Dr. Alexander Bronisch
et al. Reviewed by Jay Cowan: "Created as a commemoration of the
Kitzbuhel Ski Club's 100th anniversary in 2002, the English-language version
. . . was finally made available in mid-November . . . "
Remembering: Toni Sailer, Eunice Shriver, Stu Campbell.
Off to the Rockies by Martie Sterling
Third in a series of adventures adapted from the 1984 book Days of
Stein and Roses.
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