Video Library

Video clips honoring all 2025 winners of the ISHA Awards (for works published during calendar year 2024). 
 

Ullr Awards

Presented for a single outstanding contribution or several contributions to skiing’s historical record in published book form

• Der Schneehase: SAS 1924-2024, by Ivan Wagner
• North Star: The Legacy of Jean-Marie Mouchet, by John Firth
• Going Downhill Fast: And Other Stories from Skiing’s Extremes, by Jay Cowan
• Danger! Natural Snow: Aspects of Ski & Olympic History Edited by Annette R. Hofmann & Christof Thöny

 Baldur Awards

Presented for an outstanding work of general interest that sheds significant light on an aspect of skiing history

• I Survived Myself, by Peter “Peru” Chrzanowski
• Avalanche Dreams: A Memoir of Skiing, Climbing, and Life, by Louis Dawson
  
  Skade Awards

Presented for an outstanding work on regional ski history or for an outstanding work published in book form that is focused in part on ski history

• De La Vallée aux Sommets: Une Histoire de Passion et d'Audace, by Danielle Soucy
• Sierra Nevada: The History of Ropeways, by Juan Jose Lapuerta Rodriguez
• Mount Washington Valley Through The Ears: 1976-2005 (Mountain Ear), Compiled by Sarah Eastman & Karen Cummings

Film Awards

•  Mad River Glen: A 75-year Fellowship of Skiers Rick Moulton
• Mountain Men: Gothic Line 1945 Andrea & Giuliano Gandolfi
• Variable: 10 Years, 46 Mountains, Endless Possibilities Jamie & Doug Kennard

Honorable Mentions

• Book: The Man Who Had 9 Lives: A Murder on Skis Mystery by Phil Bayly
• Video: Centursa Sierra Nevada: Una Historia Por Esquiar Santiago Sevilla
• Short Film: Gray Rocks, Snow Trains, Monts Plante, Chalet Cochand, Jackrabbit, and Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, Michel Allard - with LSM, Cogeco Community TV & Nous TV Laurentides

14 minutes, silent. 

83 minutes. Terrible narration in English. Gretchen Fraser wins the slalom at 33minutes; Henri Oreiller wins downhill at 1 hour.

Silent film of the 1928 Winter Olympics, by Arnold Fanck. One hour, 42 minutes.

Moderated by Charlie Sanders, president of the North American Snowsports Journalists Association and ISHA Board member; with Chris Gloninger, meteorologist and climate educator; Wendolyn Holland, renewable energy consultant to the US Dept of Energy, and ISHA Board member; and Seth Masia, ISHA president and former executive director of the American Solar Energy Society.

Why do meteorologists and ski journalists avoid covering global warming as it affects winter sports? What has skiing, as a sport and business, done to protect itself against the loss of snowmaking weather and natural snowpack? How will a warming climate affect the sport and the business in the near future? 

2024 Skiing History Week Vintage Fashion Show, hosted by ISHA VP Wini Jones, former designer and marketing chief at Roffe. Surprise celebrity appearances. 42 minutes.

Guzzi Lantschner, the Austrian Alpine skier who took German citizenship in 1936 in order to compete in the 1936 Olympics (he took silver in Alpine Combined), spent WWII as a cameraman for Leni Riefenstahl, making Nazi propaganda films. After the war he emigrated to Bariloche, Argentina, and directed this Spanish-language rom-com set on the slopes and in the deluxe hotel of the Catedral ski area. Lantschner himself plays a local photographer. The plot hinges on the flirtation of a glamorous blonde journalist with an Ecuadorean ski racer, who has eyes only for a team-mate. Silly plot, but plenty of great skiing footage in spectacular scenery. One of the skiers is Tahoe's favorite Argentine, Osvaldo Ancinas, then a slim 20-year-old. 74 minutes.

At the height of America's ski boom, director Roger Brown tours top U.S. destinations with a cast of world-class skiers. 25 minutes.

25-minute interview with Otto Lang, including a lot of footage shot in Austria and the USA beginning around 1932.

An oral-history interview with Peter Miller, SKI Magazine writer/photographer, by Rick Moulton.

Wini Jones, longtime designer and marketing chief at Roffe, shows off her spectacular collection of skiwear from the 1960s thru '90s. Surprise guest appearance by Wayne Wong.  82 minutes.

Best works of skiing history published in 2022.