People

The inaugural dinner provided an opportunity to take three-time Olympic skier and former resident of The Chalet – Bill Day – back to the ski slopes and home he grew up in at Charlotte Pass.

Although at boarding school, home …

Christine Davy was a member of the 1956 and 1960 Australian Winter Olympic teams.  She competed in Downhill, Giant Slalom and Slalom.

Following retirement from competitive skiing, Christine became a pioneer female in commercial aviation.…

Fritz, Margot & their daughter Mandy about 1973. Fritz is playing his harp taken at Marritz Alpine Inn.

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In May, 1970, Hans Zollinger – proprietor of Hans Oversnow – set out to fly from Zurich to Cooma.

Skiing attracts a fascinating range of people, very often their stories involve personal successes of determination and are enthralling.  Hans is …

Henri de Vouassoux was a Frenchman who taught the Emile Allais method at the North Perisher Tow Hut in 1959 and also did some instruction at Guthega on weekends.…

Johnnie Abbottsmith, ‘Abbo’ to his friends, was born in 1918.  The son of a surveyor, he first came to the Snowy Mountains in his teens, working as geologist’s offsider for a gold mining company around Cooma.

He then went on …

Ken Murray, known to all as “KG” was the initial major developer of Perisher Valley.  His company K.G. Murray Publishing Company from 1959 until 1973 built (except for the North Perisher T-bar) and controlled, both ski-lifts and hotels, operated the …

Another story of life and work in Perisher.

Uwe arrived from Germany in April 1960 and, after a year in Mt Isa, began travelling around Australia on his BMW 500 motor cycle. He rode into Perisher Valley in  ctober 1961, …