ISHA News: Skiing History Week Roundup

Film award

At Lake Placid, we honored 2024 ISHA Award winners and Hall of Fame inductees.

Photo top: Rick Moulton (far right), chair of ISHA’s board and awards committees, presents a film award for Mountain Men: Gothic Line 1945 to (left to right) Luciano La Valle, director, and brothers Andrea and Giuliano Gandolfi, who wrote the book and were executive producers of the miniseries based upon it.

Upward of 400 participants attended the annual Skiing History Week in March at Lake Placid, New York, host to the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics. Co-sponsored by the International Skiing History Association and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame, the event featured the induction of the Hall of Fame’s class of 2024, ISHA’s film festival, awards banquet, historians’ colloquium and the John Fry Presentation. Attendees took advantage of the venue to tour the Lake Placid Olympic Museum, ski Whiteface Mountain and visit the Olympic Jumping Complex, among other activities. Join us for the next Skiing History week in April 2026 at the Cliff Lodge in Snowbird, Utah. Here’s a scrapbook of some of the ISHA Award winners. 

Danielle Soucy
Moulton presents a Skade Award to author Danielle Soucy for De la Vallée aux Sommets: une histoire de passion et d’audace (From the Valley to the Summits: A story of passion and daring), a history of the Ste. Sauveur resorts.

 

Fry lecture
Speakers at the John Fry Lecture discussed the history of the 10th Mountain Division. Participants included, left to right, Skyler Bailey, author of Heroes in Good Company; Andrea Gandolfi, co-author of the book Mountain Men: Gothic Line 1945 and executive producer of the television miniseries; ISHA board member Charlie Sanders, author of The Boys of Winter; and Lou Dawson, author of Avalanche Dreams.

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Dr. E. John B. Allen and Ingrid Wicken, winner of the Women in Snowsports Industry Award. Between them, the distinguished duo has won a dozen ISHA Awards.

 

 

 

 

 

Mountain Ear
Karen Cummings, co-author with Sarah Eastman of Mt. Washington Valley Through The Ears: 1976–2005, accepts a Skade Award.