FIS - History of skiing -

6300-5000 BC Oldest skis found in Russia near Lake Sindor (about 1,200km northwest of Moscow). Ski...

The word 'ski' (from suksi) was used in Finland. Source: Eero Naskali of the Helsinki National B...

5100+/-150 Oldest ski found in Norway was Vefsn Nordland Ski. Source: Steinar Sørenson, Glomsdal ...

Rock carvings found at Bøla, Norway. Source: Rune Flaten: The Skier from Bøla. Ski History Confer...

Skis found at Drevja, Norway. Source: Rune Flaten: The Skier from Bøla. Ski History Conference,...

The Salla ski was found in Finland in 1938. Originally 180cm long, about 15cm wide with 5 grooves....

Bog finds and rock paintings in Russia and Scandinavia prove the use of skis by people at that time...

Kalvatrask ski dated to c. 3000 BC. Finds include a nearly complete ski, one other parts and a pole...

Two complete skis and a pole dating from this time were dug out of a bog at Kalvträsk Sweden, in 19...

-The Hoting Ski, Angermanland, dating from about this time was dug out of a Swedish bog in 1921. ...

Circa 2500BC. Rock carving of skier (carbon dated) was made at Rødøy, a Norwegian island north of t...

Circa 2000 BC Rock carvings in East Karelia by Lake Aäninen & River Uikujoki. Early Stone Age. Sev...

1700-1500 BC Bronze age rock carvings including a skier on Aeskove Cultur. Also clay vessel with i...

Southern Finland Riihimäki ski. Source: Suomen Museo XXXV, 86-88. Toivo I. Itkonen: Finlands Forn...

770 +/- 100 The Sysma Ski in Finland. Curved edge underneath. Source: Eero Naskali 1990; Lahti C...

450+/-100 Liperi ski found 1897 in eastern Finland with flat sole and rounded boot space. Bothnic ...

China. First known documentary reference to skiing from the West Han period. Source: In Chin...

Roller skiing

Skis lined with badger skin and a pair of ancient bindings found at Mänttä. Source: Janne Vilkun...

Procopius in The Gothic Wars, Book 6, xc, 16 in Procopius with an English transl. by H.B. Dewing (C...

Written sources of skiing in the north – by Procopius (c. 500-565), Jordanes( 6th century) and Paul...

618-907 - The Chinese referred to Mongol-Turkish tribes in the official history of the Tang dynasty...

Thieh-lo tribe brought tribute riding on pieces of wood hunt deer over the ice. Described by Dr J...

780-799 Paulus Warnefrid from Longobardia described the Finns as skiing (skritofinns) as does Ignat...

ca. 900 Skis mentioned in 16th century by Bishop Oddur in Iceland. Source: Thorsteinn Einarsson: ...

-Ullr appears as a protector of hunters and fishermen in the Elder Edda. Source: Jakob Vaage:Mile...

Olav Tryvasson boasted that he is “better on skis than other men”. Source: Snori Sturlason, Heim...

1000-1200 The poem Lemminkäinen Skiing after the Elk. (The Kalevala). Source: Eero Naskali, Lahti...

Rune stones found from Ballingsta. Source: Falkner: Meilensteine*....

Battle between Finnmarkers and Danes who used skis. Source: Saxo Grammaticus:, The First Nine Bo...

The Birkebeiners, Thorstein Skevla and Skjervald Skrukka rescued the 2-year-old Prince Hakon Hakons...

Kongsspielet, a Norwegian Book of Manners with a short section on skiing: Source: The Kings Mirr...

Magnus Lagaboeter, Magnus the Lawgiver in 'Landsloven' has a law for the preservation of elk. The...

Von Herbertstein travelled from Vienna to Moscow and described skiers in his book: Rerum Moskovitic...

Rules were promulgated about hunting on skis in Norway. Source: Jakob Vaage, Skienes Verden. Oslo...

Fenno-Sweden's Kustaa Eeriksson later the king (Gustav Vasa) led the fight of the Taala people agai...

Norwegian postal decrees

Norwegian postal decrees were formulated. Source: Diplom.Norvet. XII, #558, p.687. Source: Vaage, ...

Publication of the Carta Marina, (map of Finland) drawn by Olaus Magnus, a Swedish Catholic Bishop....

In the 1550s the situation on the Karelian isthmus was unsettled. A furious battle broke out late ...

Olaus Magnus, a Swedish Bishop, published his famous book: History of the People of Septentrionalib...

Herman Fleming attacked Inkerinmaa in Russia. Some infantry and 900 peasants used skis. Source:...

Sarmatiae Europeae Descriptio, Cracow, Poland, by Alexander Guagninus has drawings of Russian ski...

ca.1590 The Hämeenkyrö ski found in Finland with raised footspace. Source: Eero Naskali: Lahti ...

1609-1617 Skitroops were used for scouting in Fenno-Sweden battle against Russia....

In the Glebovan village peace negotiations a Finnish warlord, Jacob (known in Finland as Jaakko) d...

First time ski is in printed source: Bureus, Andrea, Svecia, sive de Suecorum Regis Dominiis et opib...

Johannis Schefferi: Argentoratensis Lapponiae id est regionis Lapponum et gentis nova et verissima ...

Binding

In Pierre Martin de la Martiniere: Voyage des Pays Septentrionaux, 79, there are drawings of Samoje...

Second edition of Lapponia by Schefferi with drawings of hunters on skis (both skis the same length...

Janez Vaikard Valvasor, Die Ehre des Herzogtums Krain. Laibach, 1689 of Slovenia described people o...

1700-1721 Great Northern War. Russians used ski troops when attacking the Karelian Isthmus. Sou...

Norwegian pastor Hans Egde in Greenland, describes skiing and skating in his diary. Source: Vaage...

First rules for mililitary on skis made by Jens Henrik Emahusen (1688-1752). Jens Henrik Emahusen, ...

First depiction of skier with two poles. Source: P. Hergstrom: Beschreibung von dem unter schwed...

The Governor of Kymenkartano and Nyland in Finland, K.J. Stjernstedt, ordered defending ski troops ...

Publication of Peter Hoegstroem, Charte ueber einen Theil des Flusses Angermanna. Leipzig: Bruehl, ...

Waxing pamphlet by Oberleutnant C Hals, Elverum. Om Skismøring. Vaage, Skienes Verden, 254....

Prizes for military ski competitions in Norway. Oberst Tor Holm, in Haermuseet Akershus, Oslo (1...

Literary reference to skiing in Germany. Mineralogische Geschichte des sächsischen Erzgebirge. Ha...

Description of skis of unequal length (95cm short and 160 long) with sealskin. Source: Nicolai Jon...

Skiing recorded in Weardale, England, approximately this date. Source: Ski Notes & Queries, Decem...

1790s Russian skiers in Alaska. M.D. Tebenkov. Source: Atlas of the Northwest Coasts of Americ...

In Riesenkopf area, Silesia, a sort of ski was used. Source: Johan Friedrich Zollner: Briefe ube...

1793-1804 Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, philosopher and founder of new bodybuilding method ...

Dutch ship’s captain, Cornelius de Jong, wrote of Norwegian ski corps and soldiers jumping, with il...

In the Telemark area, where skis were necessary to get about, the people used them with great skill...

The costume of Russian Empire by Miller published in London has drawings of Ostjak hunter with shor...

Ski troops fought in the war over Finland between Sweden and Russia....

Olaf Rye (1791-1849) recorded as having jumped 15 alen (c. 30ft) . The start of keeping records. ...

1808-9 Mamiya Rinshu visited Japan and described and drew skiing in northern Hokkaido: Description ...

Skiers reported in Cumberland, England. Source: Alpine Journal XXXI August 1903....

Napoleon's forces during retreat were harrassed by Russians on skis. Source: T.I. Ramenskai Lyzhn...

Oscar Wergeland. Born 17 November Kristiansand NOR, died 1895

Sondre Norheim. Born 10 June Morgedal, NOR, died 9 March 1897 North Dakota, USA

Snowshoe Thompson. Born Jon Thorsteinson Rui, at Tinn in Norway, died Genoa, Nevada USA 1876

First chapters of Balzac, Seraphita in the Revue du Paris in which there are descriptions of skiing...

Elias Lönnrot put the Kalevala together from numerous tales making Lemminkäinen the ski running, el...

Glassworkers at Schreiberhau used 1meter skis for descent only. Falkner, 100 Jahre Deutscher Skive...

First reported skier in the United States (other than Alaska) in Illinois. Source: Svein Nilsson, ...

First Races held in Tromsø, Norway. Vaage, "Milepeler," in Norske Skilopere: Ostlandet Nor, 20....

In the Riesengebirge (Giant Mountains GER) skis about l m long and 15cm wide were used. Source: ...

Fritz Huitfeldt born Borgund, NOR , died 1938

Skiing reported from Danzig and Stettin. Source: C.W. Rieck, En Skifaerd i Danzig, Fra Fjeld og H...

Skiing reported in Australia. Source: Vaage, Skienes Verden, 256. But it seems unlikely that it...

Skiing reported in New Zealand. Source: Vaage, Skienes Verden, 256, but no supporting evidence....

Mathias Zdarsky born Koschichowitz CZE 25 February, died St Polten, 20 June 1940

First newspaper account of women skiing in Northern Sierra gold camps of California. Sacramento Dai...

Bjornstjerne Bjornson wrote Der ligger et Land mot den evige Sne. Source: Tor Bomann-Larsen Den E...

Or 1860 Skis first appeared in Switzerland at Sils Maria and Silvaplana belonging to Samuel Hnatek...

1860s Waxes: called 'Moko’'from Chinese labour who called anything that would "make go" the skis '...

1860s Engadine children amused themselves on barrel staves. Lunn*....

Sondre Norheim jumped 30 metres without poles so held the record for more than 30 years. Source: ...

1860s Skis were used by miners in Durham, England. Source: "She" TP's Weekly", 12 February 1904,...

1860s Competition was frequent in winter in Norway and Norwegians who travelled to work or study i...

Fridtjof Nansen born Norway died 1930

First newspaper accounts of skiing in Australian gold camp (Kiandra) probably by miners from Califor...

Newspaper account of women competing in downhill races for cash prizes in LaPorte. Marysville Daily...

January, First newspaper accounts of downhill ski racing for cash prizes in Northern Sierra gold ca...

Run with a jump competition included the first known name of a female; 16 year old Ingrid Olsdatter ...

Johannes Badrutt kept St Moritz open in winter and bet his English guests they would find it as sun...

Broken leg while skiing

Late December at Nesseby, Norway, first race that we know where competitiors were allowed to use two...

Ski school

9 February-Sondre Norheim demonstrated the Christiania at Iversløkken, Norway. Vaage, "Milepeler," i...

Konrad Wild brought Norwegian ski to Mitlodi, Glarus. Reported in Aftenbladet, 10 February....

Skiing reported from the Otago goldfields in New Zealand. Source: A.Warburton: "Early New Zealand...

Competition on skis became an important part of life in Norway. Norwegians who went to work in cent...

E.C. Richardson born in Dumbarton GB, died 14 March 1954

An article in Aftenposten (Oslo newspaper) reported that two brothers left Norway in June to work i...

Wilhelm Paulcke born Leipzig GER 8 April, died 5 October 1949

Julius Payer returned from his North Polar expedition with two skis, which are now in the Heeresges...

Skis reappeared on Bohemian side of Riesengebirge. Egger*....

Dr Carl Spengler at Davos made limited experiments on long Lapland hunting skis given to his father...

Georg Bilgeri born Bregenz AUT, 11 October, died 4 December 1934

In the collection of the Svenska Skidmuseet (Umeä north of Stockholm, Sweden) is a ski from norther...

Herman Smith-Johannsen, known as ‘Jackrabbit’ born NOR

1876, 1878 or 1880 foundation of Kiandra Snowshoe Club, Australia. Source: Percy Hunter, "History...

Finland raised its own army with skis as essential equipment. Source: Eino Nikkilä:The Story of t...

Ivar Holmquist born SWE, died 1954

23 March. First official Finnish ski competition held at Tyrnävä. (before this about 30 unofficial ...

Henry Duhamel experimented in Grenoble with Swedish skis acquired from 1878 Paris Exhibition. Sour...

Visit of Telemark peasants to Christiania. Torjus and Mikkel Hemmestveit jumped 23m at first meet o...

Mr A Birch, a Norwegian from Montreal, skied from Montreal to Quebec City on "a pair of patent Norw...

First Husebyrennet

Skiers appeared in the Riesengebirge (Giant Mountains). Two brothers from Görlitz skied on the Pete...

1880’s Lord Frederick Hamilton (brother-in-law and aide to Gov. General Lord Lansdowne) introduced...

About this time skiers (mostly Norwegians studying mining and metallurgy in Clausthal-Zellerfeld en...

John F. Baddely founded Yukki Ski Club at St Petersburg - the earliest English ski club. Source: ...

Advertisement for ski school in Oslo. Aftenbladet, 9 February 1881....

Ski Club, later known as Berlin Mills Ski Club, then Fridtjof Nansen Ski Club and finally in 1912 a...

Hickory imported from USA used for making skis in Norway. Vaage, "Milepeler," Norske Skilopere: Ost...

Wilhelm Paulcke, at school in Davos, experimented with ski procured by Norwegian schoolteacher and ...

Nordenskjold expedition to Greenland in which two of his Sami, Lars Tuordas and Anders Rossas, said...

Crosscountry and ski jumping events were developed at Huseby. Whoever got the most points in the tw...

1883-5 German pioneers began to explore the mountains: Arthur Ulrichs chief forest keeper in the Ha...

Park Toboggan & Ski Club formed in Montreal QC. Canadian Ski Museum/Musee Canadien du Ski, Ottawa....

Monks, including the Prior Henri Lugon, and a monastery servant on St Bernard Pass were given skis ...

Swedish Baron Nordenskiold's expedition into Greenland in which two of his Sami were supposed to hav...

First ski ascent of the Brocken (Germany) by two Norwegians. A History of Skiing. British Ski Year ...

Nicolai Oestgaard born Norway

Skis appeared in Warmbrunn and Leiterbaden, Germany....

1885-6 Ski clubs founded in St Paul, Minneapolis and Red Wing, Minnesota.Helen White, Tale of a Co...

Post delivered on skis by von Hänlein at Ballenstadt in the Harz mountains. First use of skis for p...

Austro-Hungarian landowners in Slovenia sent foresters to ski course held at Gusswerk near Murzzusc...

1886-7 First skiers in Czechoslovakia. Karl Danek. Why Us, Here and Thus? Nove Mesto Sporten: 1994....

First skis appeared in Schwarzental by Hohenelbe. Lehrer Kajetan Baier. Falkner: Meilensteine*....

9 March.Helsinki Sports Club organised ski competition. 16.5 km Crosscountry and skijumping. Finns ...

Women's ski club

Graf Harrach equipped his hunt servants with Norwegin ski in Bohemian Riesengebirge. A. Lunn, "A Hi...

Arnold Lunn GBR born 18 April in Madras, IND, died 2 June 1974 in London.

Fridtjof Nansen crossed the lower third of Greenland on skis, spurred on by the experience of Tuord...

First skiers in Denmark. Wilhelm Munack: Wintersport in Danemark. Der Winter VII 9 28 December 1911...

Grindelwald opened for winter sports. Rudolf Rubi: Im Tal von Grindelwald Vol III 1987....

Colonel Napier (GBR) brought Norwegian manservant Nils Nilssen to Davos with skis. A local carpente...

Mikkel Hemmestveit started manufacture of skis in St Croix, Wisconsin. St. Croix. Valley Standard, ...

First crossing of Greenland on skis

23 March Oulu races held in northern Finland . 32.1km won by Aappo Luomajoki. The most important r...

Olaf Kjelsberg, locomotive engineer from Norway and one of the first skilled skiers in Central Euro...

First skis reached Tiefenbach, Germany. Falkner. Zeittafel zur historischen Entwicklung des deutsch...

Dr Tholus procured Norwegian skis to help in his rural rounds and experimented with them at Todtnau...

Max Kleinoscheg Austrian ski pioneer, began to ski at Graz. A.Lunn, "A History of Ski-ing," British...

Mathias Zdarsky went to Habernreith, near Lilienfeld, Lower Austria. Lunn*....

Hannes Schneider born 14 June, Stuben, AUT died 1955

Publication of Paa Ski over Grønland by Fridtjof Nansen. Christiania: Aschehoug. Translated into E...

Karl Otto made ski ascent of Heimgarten, Bavaria. Arnold Lunn: The Story of Ski-ing 1952. Falkner, ...

First German ski club formed in Munich. Members used Karjala skis imported from Finland. Falkner: M...

Skis used in Reichenberg and Gablonz, Germany. Falkner: Zeittafel zur historischen Entwicklung des ...

Louis Dufour brought Norwegian skis to Les Avants; Domherr Jules Gross revived ski interest at Gran...

Peter Oester senior, a farmer, was first skier in Adelboden. Klopfenstein Archive, Adelboden....

Crosscountry skis made in Kerkkoo at Lampinen, Finland. Göran Selen: Borgä County History 1997....

Norwegians went to South America to work on Trans-Andean railroad. Advertisement in “Verdens Gang” ...

Mr Knocker, an English farmer, introduced skis to Meiringen. Lunn*....

1891 Mathias Zdarsky, inspired by Nansen’s crossing of Greenland, began to experiment at Lilienfeld...

January. Gerald Fox brought skis to Grindelwald and was the first to ski there. Lunn: History of Sk...

First attempts to make lightweight crosscountry running skis to replace heavy hickory skis. Contemp...

Father Leuzinger obtained 5 pairs of skis in the Jura. Egger*...

Norwegian skis reintroduced to Arosa by Herr Durr, a Harz forester from Brunswick and copied by car...

January Major Christof Iselin experimented with homemade ski at Glarus. Egger* A. Lunn, A History o...

8 February. Dr Raymond Pilet, French Consul at Colmar, who skied in Alsace and the Black Forest, ap...

Joseph Fischer started to manufacture skis at Freiberg im Breisgau. And Franz Baudisch made skis in...

Dr Otto Vorwerg wrote article on skiing in Wanderer im Riesengebirge. Falkner. Zeittafel....

First skier seen on the Rigi. H.A. Tanner “The Rigi“ Ski 1906-7....

8 February at top of Stuhlek Max Kleinoschegg, Toni Schruf and Wallter Wenderich founded Verband Ste...

Dr Oskar Kallas returned to Estonia from Finland with skis. Nuremberg ,Sport and Physical Education...

January, Dr Henry Lunn took Reunion Conference to Grindelwald. It was successful so he started org...

Antti Haataja was first Finn to compete in ski jumping abroad. Came 30th at Stockholm. Pekka Honkan...

Severe winter in Black Forest. Dr Tholus told Fritz Breuer and Carl Thoma about his ski experiment...

18th March. Dr Pilet and Graf Tiesenhausen skied on the Feldberg. At the Feldbergerhof they met Bre...

February – Military skiing began in Germany. Falkner: Meilensteine*....

8 November Lower Austria Ski Club founded, encouraged by Wedel-Jarlsberg of Norwegian/Swedish Consu...

Ski Club Todtnau founded. 27 November.The first Black Forest club soon attracted many students from...

Walter Konig of Glockental, Bern, obtained Hagen skis from Christiania and made local outings by mo...

Son of Herr Oberst Wille brought first skis to Bern. Egger*...

Olaf Kjelsberg brought Norwegian skis to Glarus. Egger*....

The Holmenkollen era began. 20,000 spectators at first event.Falkner. Meilensteine*Vaage, Holmenko...

First German books on ski technique were published by von Wangenheim and Schneider. First letters a...

First Holmenkollen meet

28-29 January. Major Iselin, Kjelsberg, von Steiger and Dr Edward Naef (raquettes) made first cross...

2 February first ski competition in Central Europe at Murzzuschlag, including downhill race with 9....

First attempts to make lightweight laminated crosscountry skis to replace heavy hickory skis, by H....

Skiers seen in Bois de Boulogne, Paris. Lunn, A History of Ski-ing, 29*....

8 February. Iselin and Jenny climbed the Schild (2,302m) the first real Alpine summit to be climbed...

Henrik Angell visited Montenegro. Morganbladet 14 & 19 February, and published a book about his vis...

Revelstoke Ski Club formed in Revelstoke, British Columbia CAN. Richard J. Caton, “History of Moun...

Georg Bilgeri began to ski at Linz. Lunn*.From 1 October 1894, Bilgeri waa posted to Linz. Gudrun ...

In New Zealand G.E. Mannering and Marmaduke Dixon made home-made skis and experimented in the Mt Co...

E and W Meisser made first visit on ski to Lenzerheide. Egger*...

In the Jura, Grosjean and Morel climbed the Chasseral (1607m). Lunn: History of Ski-ing....

Pharmacist Gentil of Fleurier obtained 12 pairs of skis from Norway. Jacot in Le Locle ordered 20 p...

23 March Tobias and Johann Branger with Paul Kaiser crossed the Maienfelder Furka (2,436m) from Dav...

First Swiss ski factory – the Jakober Ski Fabrik - was founded by Melchior Jakober, furniture maker...

Dr Otto Vorwerg made first ski ascent of the Schneekoppe (1603m) and published a small book of inst...

March. Arosa Rothorn (2985m a new height record) climbed by Dr C Staubli on skis with 3 companions ...

Fridtjof Nansen made second journey to North Pole with skis made of maple, birch and hickory. Eino ...

Franz Reisch climbed the Kitzbuheler Horn....

1893-4 Czech Ski Club formed as it broke away from the Skating Club. Pierre Minelle: “Le Ski dans l...

Publication of “Auf Schneeschuhen” by E.H. Schollmayer-Lichtenberg, manager of forestry personnel o...

Swiss Federal Post Office sent skis from Todtnau for use by postmen in the Dischmatal, Davos. Diary...

22 November. First Swiss Ski Club founded at Glarus by Christof Iselin after initial meeting on 19 ...

Federal military authorities arranged for skis to be used by soldiers on the Gotthard. Egger*....

December. Immer, Thoni and Berg crossed the Joch Pass from Meiringen to Engelberg. The first skiers...

March: Dr Arthur Conan Doyle spent the first of two winters in Davos and met Johann and Tobias Bran...

Krebs-Gygax of Schaffhausen crossed the Gotthard from Airolo to Andermatt. “Memories of an old Ski-...

A Bernese colonel from Thun obtained skis from Todtnau....

Ski classes were given at Mürzzuschlag by a Norwegian. Egger*....

Fritz Huitfeldt invented “bolt” binding, patented it and went into production. Leif Torgersen: Frit...

Racing at Kiandra, Australia. Record was a quarter-mile in 18 seconds (c. 50 mph). Letter in Norsk ...

Dr 0tto Vorwerg published a short brochure on skiing called Das Schilauferverein....

Moscow Ski Club founded. Algemeine Sport Zeitung (8 December 1894) 1334....

Zdarsky took on first pupil at Lilienfeld....

Publication of “Arbok” of the Norwegian Ski Association, edited by Karl Roll....

Publication of Henrik Angell Gjennem’s “Montenegro paa Ski”, Christiania....

lst December Schwarzwald Ski Club was founded by Paulcke. This was an association of Black Forest c...

Arbeiter-Turnerbund (Workers Gymnasts Association) formed in Germany....

Paul Montandon of Thun with his wife obtained skis from Norway, Glarus and Lilienfeld. “Early Mount...

First Czech ski clubs formed in Prague and Starkenbach in the Riesengebirge. Falkner Zeittafel. ...

1895-6 Edward and William Richardson (GBR) visited Norway to skate but skied instead. British Ski Y...

Publication of Alpine Lilienfelder Ski-lauf Technik by Mathias Zdarsky. It started a division of op...

Copenhagen Ski Club founded. Jørn Hansen: Come to Norway my Friend. Danish Winter Sport as touris...

Publication of Huitfeldt’s book, Larebog i Skilobning....

5 January Paulcke, de Beauclair, Baur and Steinweg climbed the Oberalpstock (3360m). Paulcke publis...

First military races in Central Europe were run on the Feldberg....

Schwarzwald Ski Club organised the first downhill race in Germany from Seebock to the Feldbergerhof...

Martin Strand started business in shack behind his house in Minneapolis: Martin Strand: Ski Running...

Ski Club des Alpes was formed by friends of Duhamel, Grenoble. Lunn*....

First Ski Club in Riesengebirge founded at Hohenelbe....

May. Freiburg students under Paulcke and de Beauclair climbed Fibbia and Piz Lucendro. Paulcke*...

Dr Payot used skis to visit his patients in Chamonix, France. Lunn*....

In January Samuel Brawand and brothers from Grindelwald, with the Russian Alfred Belaieff, crossed ...

17-23 January Wilhelm Paulcke with de Beauclair, Lohmüller, Ehlert and Mönnichs crossed the Bernese...

6 March.The first formal ski race in Western Canada was held at Red Mountain, Rossland, BC, organis...

L.A.Kind, a Swiss engineer at Turin, introduced ski into Italy. British Ski Year Book 1925....

The Owen sisters, the Bostock brothers and Canon Savage made adventurous tours at Grindelwald....

Martin Conway’s expedition crossed Spitzbergen on ski....

Johann Branger and Herbert Aldridge skied from Davos to St Moritz over the Scaletta Pass and back o...

August. Von Arlt made first summer ski expedition on glaciers, climbing Johannisberg (3,467m) in Au...

New Year. Paulcke and Helbling climbed Monte Rosa to a height of 4,200m. Dr Robert Helbling: Echo d...

Four Bernese ski-runners, led by Emil Cardinaux, made traverse from Kandersteg to Lauterbrunnen, cr...

Paul Montandon took skis to the Great St Bernard, the Furka and Piz Lucendro. Egger*...

Ehlert and Mönnichs crossed the Oberalp and Lukmanier passes. Egger*...

Professor Schweitzer and friends discovered Vorab near Flims as a ski district. Egger*...

Henry Lunn took a group of British to Chamonix. His 10-year-old son, Arnold, accompanied them. Skis...

The War Eagle Trophy for the Ski Jumping Championships of Canada was presented to Olaus Jeldness at...

Domherr Jules Gross returned to Grand St Bernard Pass and encouraged monks to ski further....

1 January. Ehlert and Mönnichs (Paulckes’ colleagues on Oberland traverse) killed by avalanche on S...

Publication of Paulcke’s Der Skilauf....

McGill University professors P.E. Nobbs, J.B. Porter and R.J. Durley, skied on Mount Royal in Montr...

Early 1900s. Ski factories Illa Sag & Snickers made skis in southern Finland to sell to Russian Arm...

First German ski championships on the Feldberg, 3 February 1900, won by Bjarne Nilssen. Falkner: M...

Bern Ski club founded. Lunn*....

The Dominion Ski Championship title was won by Olaus Jeldness at Rossland BC, Canada. He won both s...

Arnold Lunn, with Bostock brothers, made first expedition on ski, from Grindelwald to Kleine Scheid...

First ski course for mountain guides held at Meran run by Schwarzwald Ski Club and DoeAV, Freiburg....

Oscar Eckenstein of London skied for much of the winter in the Loch Ness district of Scotland....

Lampinen factory founded at Porvoo, Kerkkoo, Finland. Göran Selen 1997....

Nordiska Spelen, -First Nordic Ski Games in Stockholm, 9-12 February.Baron Pierre de Coubertin, foun...

First ascent of Dammastock (3633 m) by Hoek and Schottelius. Hoek made first ascent of the Finstera...

Foundation of first Italian ski club in Turin. Lunn*....

Bilgeri started to train Army skiers in the High Alps. Lunn*....

13 December Foundation of Zurich Ski Club by Viktorde Beauclair....

December. The Richardson brothers went to Davos from Britain in search of snow. E.C. & C.W. Richard...

1901/2 Adelboden opened for its first winter season....

W.R. Rickmers with his wife Mabel (nee Duff) went to Lilienfeld to learn from Zdarsky and in March ...

“Battle of the bindings” flared up between Zdarsky and the Black Forest Nordic school. Lunn*....

January ski course for guides organised at Zermatt led by Viktor de Beauclair and A Weber. Paulcke*...

February/March. Courses for guides in Eastern Alps led by members of Schwarzwald Ski Club. Paulcke*...

26 January. First Swiss National Races, Glarus. Mercier, Urgeschichte des Schweiz Skilaufes.101....

9 February. Bern Ski Club organised races on the Gurten. Lunn*....

22 February. Grindelwald Ski Club founded. Egger*....

Kitzbuhel Winter Sports Club founded....

Norwegian officers invited to Briancon to instruct 159th Regiment in ski-running....

Club Alpin Francais actively encouraged ski-running and gave skis to postmen, road repairers, guide...

First ascent of the Jungfrau by Dr J David and Paul Kønig. “Early Mountaineering on Ski”. By Paul M...

February: first skiing fatality on a glacier. Paul König and Walter Flender killed in crevasse on t...

First Eton and Harrow winter party taken to Adelboden by Dr Henry Lunn. Arnold Lunn: “The Englishm...

First skiers in India in Baltoro and Godwin-Austin region. J. Guillarmod. Record dans l’Himalaya Ja...

First Swiss Military Championships. Egger*....

Geneva Ski Club founded within the CAS Geneva section by Ole Houm and Dr Leon Weber....

1902/3 Norwegian consul in Kobe, Peter Ottesen, ordered skis for Japanese army after troops had suf...

Count Bonacossa, alone, climbed Corno Grande (2914 m) in the Appenines. Lunn*....

Military school opened at Briancon and provided very cheap skis to officers, NCOs, policemen, fores...

6 January.Davos English Ski Club founded by E.C.and C.W. Richardson and E.H. Wroughton. E.C. Richar...

January. Dr Payot led first party along the Haute Route. Followed a month later by Dr Helbling an...

First ski hut built in Swiss Alps at Spitzmeilen. Egger*....

First ski jump in Tirol at Kitzbühel....

Gotthard Ski Club founded. Egger*....

Hannes Schneider was given his first pair of skis. Fairlie biography....

23 January Adelboden Ski Club founded. G. Aellig: “100 Years of the Adelboden Ski Club” Adelboden 2...

W.R. Rickmers made “snake-track of Laret” at St Moritz, which was seen by E.C. Richardson so they m...

Officers’ Club of Chur held ski course. Egger*...

5th May W.R. Rickmers read paper on The Alpine Skee and Mountaineering at the Alpine Club, London. ...

6 May Ski Club of Great Britain founded by E.C. Richardson at the Café Royal, London. Yearbook of t...

1903/4 Skiing reported in the Guadarramas, Spain, by two Norwegians but only when Juan Manuel Madin...

Norwegian skis ordered for the Japanese

January. First course of instruction by Norwegians held in Switzerland at Lenzerheide. Organised by...

Rickmers taught in January at Adelboden and at Easter took British touring group to Ben Nevis, Scot...

Ski Club of Great Britain brought group to the Jotunheim where Hoek and Rickmers made many first as...

21 January. First ascent of Titlis by Willy Amrhein and Josef Kuster. Beat Christen: Zwei Bretten E...

25 February. First ascent of Mont Blanc by Hugo Mylius (S.C. Schwarzwald) and Meiringen guides. Mar...

E.Wroughton and C Wingfield made two-day tour over the Derbyshire moors. Yearbook of Ski Club of G...

Discovery of the Parsenn Furka ski route and Rhaetian railway regularly used for return uplift by s...

20th November. Founding of Swiss Ski Association at Hotel Aarhof, Olten. 15 Swiss clubs with 700 me...

The Montreal Ski Club formed in Montreal QC. Carly S. King, Canadian Ski Museum, Ottawa....

Berg and Björnstad ran courses at Engelberg, Glarus, Andermatt, Grindelwald, Les Avants, Lenzerheid...

Hannes Schneider joined ski course run by Viktor Sohm. Gerald Fairlie biography....

Skiing reported in the Atlas Mountains, Algeria. La Montagne 11, 4 (20 April 1906) 189....

November. Ski-Running by E.C. Richardson, W.R. Rickmers and Crichton Somerville was published. The ...

Glarus Ski Club organised the first Swiss championships (Grosses Skirennen der Schweiz). Crosscoun...

Engelberg. Leif Berg skied from Titlisgipfel down to Trübsee in 29 minutes. Egger*....

January. W.R. Rickmers taught for second season at Adelboden. Adelboden English Ski Club was founde...

First issue of Year Book of the Ski Club of Great Britain....

English Officer on skis in Gulmarg region, India. Year Book of the SCGB 1925....

“The Battle of the Bindings” was concluded, thanks to diplomatic visits of Schwerdtner to Christian...

Finland’s first wooden ski-jump built in Alppila, Helsinki. Pekka Honkanon: The History of Skijumpi...

19 March. Zdarsky set the first gate race of 85 gates, (precursor of the modern Giant Slalom) on th...

4/5 November. German Ski Federation founded in Munich. A few hours later followed by the Austrian S...

Japanese fought on skis in Russo-Japanese war. Tokyo Morning Post cited in Algemeines Korrespondenz...

4 February, the National Ski Association of America founded at Ishpeming, Michigan. E. John B. Allen...

Public Schools Winter Sports Club founded from Eton and Harrow parties by Henry Lunn. He took over ...

24-27 February. Helsinki Ski Club organised its first international ski competition. Eljanko Harri ...

Italian troops, the Alpini, were trained by Harald Smith and Christian Klucker at Sauze, Italy. Arn...

First Arbeiter Skischule founded in Vienna. Falkner....

Finnish explorer, Professor Artturi Kannisto made his first expedition to study the language in wes...

Colonel Georg Bilgeri began to teach civilians. He also provided the Austrian government with a 150...

Publication of The Ski-Runner by E.C. Richardson and Der Ski by Henry Hoek....

Paravicini made ski tour near Fujirama. Paravicini “Ski in Japan” Ski - Mittel Eur Ski Verband 16. ...

Hannes Schneider started to teach skiing to guests at Hotel Post, St Anton am Arlberg. Gerald Fairl...

Grand Combin climbed by Professor Francois Roget and Marcel Kurz with guide, Maurice Crettex. Marce...

Ottawa Ski Club formed in Ottawa Ontario, Canada. Herbert Marshall “History of the Ottawa Ski club ...

Abel Rossignol began mass production of skis in Voiron. Jean-Jacques Bompard. Encyclopedie du Ski. ...

New ski jumps built at Vyborg and Tempere, Finland. Pekka Hokanen: History of Ski Jumping in Finlan...

March. First Italian ski competition organised by Milan Ski Club in the Valsassina. Lunn*....

1907-8 Skiing reported in Iran near Sultanabad c.180 SW of Teheran. British Ski Year Book 1955 poss...

20 March First Concours International de Ski held at Mont Genevre. La Montagne III 3....

Norwegian Ski Association founded....

Der Skilauf published by H Hoek and E.C.Richardson. Combination of Norwegian technique with Zdarsky...

Zakopane Ski Society founded in Poland. Lunn*....

24 October Gstaad Ski Club founded....

Engelberg opened for winter sports including skiing. Yearbook of the Ski Club of GB....

22 November Scottish Ski Club founded. Scottish Ski Club Magazine 1909....

First accident insurance for skiers and mountaineers offered by Naturfreund of Austria in Vienna....

30 December Sigmund Ruud, born Kongsberg, Norway. Died 30 December 1994

First skilift in the world set up in Schollach, Schwarzwald. It rose 75 m and was 550 m long. Falkn...

Arnold Lunn and Cecil Wybergh skied dangerous mule path on Rawyl Pass while going from Montana to L...

17 February. First Ski Club of GB meeting in Kitzbühel with Nordic and Alpine events organised by W...

Finnish Ski Association founded. H Nygren, Antero Reivuori and Terno Makokuutti. 1983....

Alpine Ski Club founded by Arnold Lunn. Alpine Ski Club Annual 1908....

1908-9 Hotel was built for winter sports at Kosciusko, Australia. Der Winter V 15 (10 February 1912...

Italian Ski Federation founded....

3. February, O Hagen (NOR) born. Died 26.7.1992

Kosciusko Alpine Club founded. “Skiing in Australia” Australian Quarterly. 14 March 1932, 106. SC o...

Ski Club of GB organised tour to Montenegro and Turkey, introducing skis to the region. Year Book o...

Thomas Cook started to offer ski holidays....

French and German skiers competed at Holmenkollen....

Triberg in Black Forest held first international winter sports meeting in Germany....

F. Noelting from Alsace introduced skis to the Caucasus. Year Book of the SCGB 1910....

Arnold Lunn and Professor François Roget made first full length Oberland traverse via the Petersgra...

Bernard Head skied on Tasman Glacier. Year Book of the Ski Club of GB 1910....

Vivian Caulfeild wrote first attack on use of sticks. He promoted Telemark and Christiania for S-tu...

28 August Arnold Lunn broke his leg badly climbing in Wales. Come What May 1940, 63-66.....

25 December. Austrian Egon Edler von Kratzer made first Japanese ski tour. Alpine Skilauf in Japan....

Publication of The Ski Runner by E.C. Richardson....

Harald Smith jumped 45 m on the Bolgenschanze, Davos – a world record. Der Schnee IX 24. 4 April 1...

5 January-12 March. Theodor von Lerch arrived in Tokada, foothills of Japanese Alps and made first ...

18 February. First International Ski Commission, Oslo NOR. Dahl NOR became president. 22 delegates ...

Hilltop resort in Truckee, California, opened steam-driven toboggan tow, which also hauled skiers t...

Ottawa Ski Club founded in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Herbert Marshall: History of the Ottawa Ski C...

Hannes Schneider developed the Arlberg technique and taught a turn which became known as the stem-c...

First skiers were reported in Bulgaria on lower slopes of Mt Vitosha near Sofia. Sir Francis Lindle...

Publication of 2 important books: Der Alpine Skilauf by Col. Georg Bilgeri (synthesis of Norwegian...

Mountain railway at Wengen opened in 1909/10 season to allow access to resort and snowfields....

Arnold Lunn allowed to join Ski Club of GB (previously banned as his father’s tour business was see...

7 January, Montana. First Roberts of Kandahar Cup for downhill won by Cecil Hopkinson. Alpine Ski C...

Fourth High Level Route skied by Roget and Kurz, the first to follow consistently the glacier route...

5 March First Baron von Willibrandt Challenge Cup run in Sweden and won by Sulo Jaaskelainen of Fin...

Canada’s first professional ski instructor, Emile Cochand, was brought to the Laurentian Mountain r...

Mürren railway opened in winter 1910/11 for access to resort....

First mention in print of the term stem-christiania. C.J. Luther:Der Moderne Skisport....

Downhill Telemarks become fashionable with English skiers. Single pole almost extinct....

Cortina d’Ampezzo opened for winter sports. Walter Lorden: “Mountains, Ski-ing and Cortina” Alpine ...

Ski Club Echigo founded in Japan and one at University of Sapporo. Wolfram Manzenreiter Die Soziale...

20-21 March, Second International Ski Commission. Stockholm SWE. Long uphill sections in races were...

Publication of How to Ski and How Not To. by Vivian Caulfeild. First clear analysis in English of s...

Publication of With Ski in Norway and Lapland. by J.H.W. Fulton, The first book to present skiing a...

11th December: Roald Amundsen with 4 others reached South Pole on skis....

Arnold Lunn able to mountaineer again. Decided to concentrate on ski-mountaineering but in summer c...

Birger Ruud born Kongsberg, NOR. Died 13th June 1998

23/24/25 January, Third International Ski Commission, Munich GER. Bruno Morovetz FIS Bulletin 1999....

11 February: foundation of first Japanese ski club – Takada Ski Club. First ski competition organi...

3 March. First Australian Ski Championships. run by Kosciusko Alpine Club. Stewart Jamieson: Skiing...

Publication of The Alpine Ski Guide to the Bernese Oberland by Arnold Lunn. First ski guide in any ...

Publication of Lt Eimeleus, Lyzhi v voennom dielie. St Petersburg. Th Gastew 1912. First instruct...

Very poor season in the Alps due to snow shortage and recurrent thaws. Year Book of Ski Club of GB....

First ascent of Lauterbrunnen Breithorn (3779m) by Arnold Lunn and Edward Tennant. Lunn: Ski-ing 19...

Nels Nelson emigrated from Norway to Revelstoke BC. Shortly after, he established Winter Carnival a...

25 February Emile Allais born Megeve, FRA

Publication of Ski-ing by Arnold Lunn First book to veto stick-riding in Downhill races....

Sepp Allgeier of Freiburg and Arnold Fanck filmed the first High Alpine ski film Monte Rosa on Ski ...

Jungfrau opened to Jungfraujoch. (Provisionally in August 1912). Max Stahel, "Jungfraubahn," Ski ...

First crossing of Cairngorms on ski by Sang and Arthur. Scottish Ski Club Magazine 1914....

20-21 March. Fourth International Ski Commission, Bern-Interlaken, SUI. Bruno Morovetz FIS Bulletin...

Simple stemming competition organised by Kosciusko Alpine Club AUS. G.R.T. Ward: Diamond Jubilee of...

McGill University Newspaper carried notice of a meeting of those interested in skiing to discuss fo...

Mount Ruapehu ski club founded. J. C. Graham, Ruapehu gives date of 31 July 1913, but R.C. Murie: ...

2 December Esme (Muffie) Mackinnon GBR born. Died 9 July 1999

January First Open British Championships held by Ski Club of GB at Saanenmöser.Won by C.C.Rolph. Ye...

January. Villars. First competition for GBR Army, Navy and Air Force Cup. Lunn*....

27/28/29 February Fifth International Ski Commission, Christiania NOR Bruno Morovetz FIS Bulletin ...

First Finnish Ski Championships. Harri Eljanko & Jussi Kirjavainen Pekka Honkanon: History of Skii...

Skidalfjaviker Reykjaviker founded Reykjavik, Iceland Championships. Der Winter 27 September 1934....

Skiing first mentioned as a tourist attraction, when the Hermitage at Mt Cook, New Zealand, opened ...

Skiing recorded in Morocco near Timhadit (near Meknes) La Montagne XIII July-September 1917, 164.Sk...

Emil Lampinen sold his ski factory to Oy Urheilutarpeita Company (owned by Arno Hohenthal) in Helsi...

British and French prisoners of war were sent from Germany to Switzerland. Arnold Lunn organised t...

December. About 3,000 soldiers on the Austrian front in the Dolomites were killed by avalanches....

1916-1919 Professor Sakari Palsi made expedition to eastern Siberia. His diary recorded “There is ...

1 July. Christl Cranz born GER (m Adolf Bochers) Died 28 September 2004

18 June. First ski ascent of the Dom, the highest mountain entirely in Switzerland, by Arnold Lunn ...

Emile Cochand built the first Canadian ski resort, Chalet Cochand in Ste Marguerite QC. Canadian Sk...

First official German Ski Teaching Plan. Falkner: Meilensteine....

26th October Marc Hodler born Berne SUI. Died 18 October 2006

24 November. The Cliffside Ski Club was formed in Ottawa CAN at a meeting in Carnegie Library. Cana...

In Germany ATB became ATSB (Arbeiter Turn und Sport Bund). Nitsch 1984 Simon 1969....

11 February Gretchen Fraser born USA. Died 13 February 1994

14 November Honore Bonnet born Barcelonnette FRA. Died 22 February 2005

6 June Serge Lang born Alsace FRA. Died 21 November 1999

In the 1920s Finns adopted Norwegian competition of crosscountry, jumping and nordic combined. Used...

Wunder des Schneeschuhs. First of Arnold Fanck’s films with Hannes Schneider. Fanck’s films and the...

Foundation of Ski Club of Australia. Ski Notes & Queries May 1932. 350-352....

Canadian Amateur Ski Association formed in Montreal. H. Percy Douglas elected president. First ann...

Lake Placid Club hired first professional ski instructor in USA, Henrik Jacobsen....

Marius Eriksen patented steel toe iron screwed to top of ski....

5-12 January British Ski Championships – the first national championships to include Alpine events....

10 February. Sixth International Ski Commission, Stockholm SWE. Bruno Morovetz. FIS Bulletin 1999....

4th March Vasa race first run....

Arnold Lunn changed the slalom rules and organised at Mürren the first modern slalom through awkwar...

United States Eastern Amateur Ski Association formed. Amski 1966....

Emil Lampinen opened new ski factory in Kerkoo, S Finland. Most skis exported until the 1970s. In 1...

4th March Lahti Ski Club founded. LHS 1982....

December First Skijump built in Lahti Sports Centre, designed by Norwegian, Robert Pehrson....

6th February. Seventh International Ski Commission. Prague TCH. Bruno Morovetz FIS Bulletin 1999....

Ladies Ski Club Founded by Arnold Lunn at Mürren to encourage alpine racing for ladies. Arnold Lunn...

10/11 February First Japanese National Ski Championships. Also first jumping in Otaru. Winner jumpe...

Norway’s Ski Museum opened. Vaage: Skienes Verden....

First Lahti Ski Games. 50 km winner T. Niku; 10 km winner A.Collin. Pekka Honkanon: The History of ...

24 January-4 February. International Sports Week, Chamonix. Later recognised as first Winter Olympic...

French Ski Federation founded....

Allen: “We showed the World the Nordic Way” “Skiing, Norwegians and the Winter Olympic Games in th...

29 January Kandahar Ski Club founded at Mürren and named after Lord Roberts of Kandahar. Lunn: The ...

Walter Amstutz founded the Schweizerische Academische Skiklub (SAS). Lunn*....

Toronto Ski Club incorporated (Ontario, Canada). Canadian Ski Museum/Musee Canadien du Ski, Ottawa....

2 complete skis and a pole found at Kalvträsk, Sweden, dating back to 2,700BC....

31 January-2 February. First Workers Winter Sports, Schreiberhau, Riesengebirge, GER. Organised by ...

Publication of Lunn’s Mountains of Youth....

12/15 February. Central European Championships in Johannisbad (CZE) between German, Italian, Polish...

15 February. Foundation of Japanese Ski Association. Massaji 72. Changed its name to Japanese Zen N...

February, Nels Nelson of Revelstoke BC made a standing jump of 240 feet (73.125 m). The city honour...

9/14 April Capt de Gennes, Schwindler, Michelet and Armardeil made expedition in the Pelvoux range....

FIS Rendezvous Races Johannisbad, Czechoslovakia (later recognised as Nordic World Ski Championship...

5 December Henri Oreiller, born Paris FRA. Died 7 October 1962

Foundation of Ski Club of India. Dermot Norris, Kashmir: the Switzerland of India, Calcutta: Newman...

Publication in English of The Wonders of Skiing by Hannes Schneider and Arnold Fanck....

Oscar Hambro of Norway opened first US ski shop in Boston. Amski 1966, 446....

1926-7 Reinhard Straumann, an ex-jumper published in Ski the aerodynamics of ski jumping. He also u...

Emil Lampinen awarded gold medal at World Fair, Philadelphia for his skis. Esko Jarvinen Oy. Helene...

8 March First US modern Downhill race held at Mt Moosilauke, New Hampshire by Dartmouth Outing Club...

Otto Schniebs was first Arlberg instructor to arrive in US. He became coach of Harvard team, offici...

FIS Nordic Championships, Cortina d’Ampezzo ITA....

Arnold Lunn visited Hannes Schneider at St Anton. He set a small Slalom for local boys and the two ...

First Ounasvaara Ski Games in Rovaniemi, Finland. Eljano & Kirjavaienen: History of Skiing in Finla...

2 September-1952 Trude Beiser, born Lech AUT

11 December Stein Eriksen born Oslo NOR

Winter Olympic Games at St Moritz. Nordic events only. Japan entered for the first time. Race organ...

First Inferno Race run at Mürren. 14 men and 4 women competed. Alan d’Egville. Adventures in Safety...

Foundation of Netherlands Ski Federation....

Norwegian Erling Strom built Mt Assiniboine Lodge. Carly S. King Canadian Ski Museum, Ottawa....

9 March. First American slalom under Arnold Lunn’s experimental FIS rules was set by Prof. Charles ...

31 March-1 April The first Arlberg-Kandahar was organised at St Anton, by Hannes Schneider and the ...

1 November Red Birds Ski Club formed in Laurentians region of Quebec by a group of McGill Ski Team ...

First Quebec Kandahar Cup hosted by Red Birds Ski Club was started by British Kandahar Ski Club....

New ski jumps built at Rovaniemi and Kuopio FIN....

Segmented steel edge for alpine skis invented by Rudolph Lettner, a skier and metal worker from Sal...

International Ski Championships in Zakopane, Poland. A Downhill was included in which 2 women raced...

Peckett’s-on-Sugar-Hill Arlberg ski school near Franconia NH was founded by Katherine Peckett to be...

First crosscountry ski manual published in Finnish. Roni Ranne Murtormaahiihto Helsinki....

Foundation of Schweizerische Damen Skiclub. Hopp Schweiz, Ed. Max Triet. 2004....

Chateau opened at Tongariro, New Zealand. Ruapehu Ski Club organized first New Zealand Championshi...

Two skiers at Fonteintjiesberg, S Africa. “The Cape Times” 15 July 1929....

Visit to Japan of three Norwegians, Kolterud, Snersrud and Helset. Helset letters in Aftenposten 9,...

Publication of Schneeschuhlauf by Karl Buhren and Waldemar Richter – a lasting influence on working...

First ski train in the United States ran from Boston to Warner New Hampshire. Amski 1966 447....

Optrekk style of jumping no longer considered valid in competition. Vaage, Skienes Verden. 265....

First Kilometre Lance was run at St Moritz by Kurdirektor Walter Amstutz. British Ski Year Book. 1...

February FIS Congress at Oslo. It was agreed that Arnold Lunn’s rules for Downhill and Slalom shou...

First Lauberhorn Race run at Wengen. Ernst Gertsch won Slalom, Christian Rubi Downhill and Bill Bra...

13 March-4 April Hannes Schneider visited Japan and gave ski lessons there. Hannes Schneider Auf S...

XI. FIS meeting

Skoki backcountry ski lodge built at Banff, Alberta by pioneers Clifford White and Cyril Paris. Can...

Laminated ski construction patented simultaneously by Ostbye-Splitkein in Norway and Anderson and T...

First Hahnenkamm run at Kitzbuhel....

5-8 February. Workers second Winter Sports Olympics held at Murzzuschlag AUT....

First FIS Alpine World Championships, Murren, SUI organised by the British. British Ski Year Book 1...

Madeleine Berthod born SUI

First Winter Olympic Games outside Europe held at Lake Placid USA. Nordic events only. FIS World Al...

First North American rope tow was in use at Shawbridge, Quebec. "Our First Ski Funicula," Canadian ...

Esko Jarvinen started to produce skis in Lahti, Finland with the name Uheilukeskus Oy. In 1939 the ...

19 April Andrea Mead Lawrence born Rutland, Vermont USA

XII FIS meeting in Paris....

12th FIS meeting in Paris. 27 delegates from 16 countries. www.aafla.orgf/OlympicInformationCenter...

FIS Nordic Championships at Innsbruck included Mens Relay for the first time....

New Zealand Womens Championships first organised in Downhill and Slalom. Graham. Ruapehu. Tribute t...

Ski jumping record of 281 feet, held by Alf Engen of Salt Lake City, broken by Robert S Lymburne wi...

Alex Foster (CAN) a Montreal student, invented a rope ski tow that was installed on a hill at Shawb...

Laminated ski construction using permanently waterproof glues patented simultaneously by Bjorn Ulle...

Ski flying hill built at Planica, (Yugoslavia) SLO....

FIS Nordic Championships Solleftea SWE....

First Teleski (Bugellift) installed at Davos by E. Constam....

First skilift built at Val d’Isere....

1934-1951 Nicolai R. Oestgaard of Norway succeeded Ivor Holmquist as President of FIS....

XIII. FIS meeting

Foundation of Ecole Nationale du Ski Francaise....

FIS Nordic Championships, Hohe Tatra TCH....

Ernst Skadarasy from Zürs, Austria, spent season at Kosciusko, Australia. Janis M Lloyd. Skiing int...

17 November Anton (Toni) Sailer born Kitzbuhel AUT

First Winter Olympic Games to include Alpine races (Slalom and Downhill but medal awarded for Combi...

FIS World Alpine Championships, Innsbruck....

First chairlift built in Sun Valley, Idaho, USA. Falkner: Meilensteine*. ...

First Jumping manual published in Finland Paavo Nuotio-Lauri Valonen: Mäenlaskun opas P&N 1969....

Snow Structure and Ski Fields by Gerald Seligman was published. It analysed the structure of the sn...

Asoh Takeharu was first Japanese to take the Austrian Teachers exam. 75 Jahre Japan Oesterreich Ski...

XIV. FIS meeting

FIS Nordic Championships, Chamonix FRA....

New ski jump in Rovaniemi, FIN following new safety rules. Eljanko and Kirvainen: History of Skiing...

First Citadin race (Duke of Kent Cup) run in Mürren by Arnold Lunn. Lunn. The Kandahar Story....

3rd Workers Winter Sports Olympiade. Johannisbad. Riesengebirge. Falkner, Zeittafel....

12 November, J.B. Ski Club formed in Montreal QC by a group of the Montreal Junior Board of Trade. ...

August. First ski tow in Australia (120 yards long) powered by a V-8 Cadillac engine on Mt Buffalo,...

Publication of “Ski Francais” by Emile Allais and Paul Gignoux in which Emile Allais promoted a dir...

Veli Saarinen takes over as Finnish trainer until 1948. Nygren, Raevuori, Mäkikuutti, A Long Track...

Meribel FRA explored by Peter Lindsay but development had to wait until the war ended....

February. Joseph Ryan opened Mont Tremblant ski area in the northern Laurentian Mountains of Quebec...

Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance /Alliance des Moniteurs de Ski du Canada (CSIA) founded in the La...

FIS Nordic World Championships using new Ski Jump, Lahti, FIN. Alpine World Championships, Engelber...

First chairlift in Europe at Frydek-Mistek, Czechoslovakia....

First U.S. Ski Patrol established at Stowe under Minot Dole as chairman of national committee. Amsk...

Hannes Schneider imprisoned by Nazis and then sent to Garmisch-Partenkichen in the care of Karl Roe...

17 November Karl Schranz born St Anton AUT

XV. FIS meeting

Hannes Schneider through aid of Harvey Dow Gibson allowed to emigrate with wife and children to USA...

Hjalmar Hvam invented the world’s first useful release binding in Seattle. Amski 1966 p448 -7- Frie...

Zakopane, POL. FIS Nordic & Alpine World Championships including Crosscountry, Jumping, Nordic Comb...

11 January Anne Heggtveit born Ottawa, CAN

Canadian Ski Patrol System organised by Dr Doug Firth, Toronto ON. Canadian Ski Museum/ Musee Canad...

Canadian Ski Instructors Association published its first ski teaching manual - Normand Lapierre, Pr...

Unofficial World Championships at Cortina but not recognised when the war ended....

Publication of “Parallel Skiing" by E. Fritz Losli, in which he described how he taught parallel sk...

US Army’s Tenth Mountain Division activated at Camp Hale, Pando, Colorado; National Ski Patrol name...

11 May, Nancy Greene born Ottawa, CAN

30 August, Jean-Claude Killy born St Cloud, FRA

Tenth Mountain Division USA inactivated....

Benno Rybizka a top instructor from the Hannes Schneider Ski School in St Anton, came to Mont Tremb...

9 September Christine Goitschel born Ste Maxime FRA

17/18 October Directive 23 of Allied Control forbad all National Socialist organisations, among the...

28 September Marielle Goitschel born Ste Maxime, FRA

Polythylene ski base invented by the Swiss firm Muller and Co. (Ski/R 1983 p41). Dynamic came out w...

Foundation of Courchevel....

July. Donald Gomme GBR patented first ski made of wood and metal bonded. He had learnt the techniqu...

Aspen, Colorado, opened with 1 chairlift....

XVI. FIS meeting

6 December. Workers South German Community Ski Federation founded in Esslingen, as forerunner of th...

Winter Olympic Games. St Moritz SUI. Officially no German entries. Individual racers, men and wome...

Sporting goods manufacturer Jean Beyl introduced a releasing plate binding for alpine skis, in Neve...

February. The Bavarian Ski Club reemerged under its prewar name. 1 December. The Federation founded...

Mt Norquay introduced the first chairlift in the Canadian Rockies. Canadian Ski MuseumMusee canadie...

First US national periodical, “Ski Magazine” evolved out of merger of Ski Illustrated (the changed ...

14 January First Lowlander Championship run by the Kandahar Ski Club between Belgian, British, Dan...

First mass production of aluminum skis, by Chance Vought and TEY in Connecticut and Howard Head in ...

Russia became a member of FIS and insisted on rejection of Spain. Arnold Lunn resigned in protest. ...

11-15 January. German Ski Championships held in Soviet zone at Isny for Nordic and Oberwiesenthal f...

Lasse Johansson took over as Finnish Jumping Trainer. Pekka Honkanon. History of Ski-Jumping in Fin...

Squaw Valley, California, opened. John Fry: TheStory of Modern Skiing. 2006....

9 October German Ski Federation re-established in Heidelberg. Falkner: Meilensteine*....

Art Hunt, Milton Pierce and Dave Richey - working together as TEY Manufacturing in Connecticut - fi...

Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance (CSIA) was incorporated. A legal status was obtained to train and...

XVII. FIS meeting

FIS Nordic World Championships at Lake Placid. Alpine World Championships, at Aspen, USA. East Germ...

Howard Head sold first successful sandwich construction ski. John Fry: The Story of Modern Skiing. ...

1951-98 Marc Hodler of Switzerland elected President of FIS succeeding Nicolai Oestgaard....

28 February Gustavo Thoeni born Trafoi ITA

Steve Bradley introduced first “mogul cutter” slope grooming machine at Winter Park, Colorado....

XVIII. FIS meeting

Winter Olympic Games, Oslo, NOR. West Germans entered but no East Germans. Giant Slalom became an ...

Hannes Marker invented his safety binding. Falkner: Meilensteine*....

Bud Phillips, director of Mad River Glen ski school (Vermont) built a ski armoured with fibreglass-...

27 March Annemarie Proell born Kleinarl, AUT

3 December Franz Klammer born Mooswald, AUT

XIX. FIS meeting

FIS World Championships in Falun, SWE. 30 km race for men and also womens’ relay included for first...

US National Ski Hall of Fame dedicated at Ishpeming, Michigan. Amski 1966, 449....

Skimatting used for the first time in the world at Oberhof. Hans Renner (Jumping coach) says it rev...

At Val d’Isere the Criterium de la Premiere Neige was run for the first time....

First Pirkan Hiihto track tour over 90km from Niinisalo to Tampere. Nygren, Revuori, Mäkikuutti; A ...

Taos Ski Valley opened by Ernie Blake in New Mexico, USA....

Henke Speed Fit buckle boots launched. Ski Racing 1983, 44....

XX. FIS meeting

18 March Ingemar Stenmark born, Tarneby, SWE

26 January-5 February.Winter Olympic Games. Cortina d’Ampezzo, ITA. First Winter Olympics to be tel...

Bob Lange made the first plastic ski boot. Commercial introduction came in 1964 after adoption of b...

XXI. FIS meeting

FIS Nordic World Championships, Lahti, FIN, with new Ski Jump. 18 countries compete. Pekka Honkanen...

Alpine World Championships, Badgastein AUT. First Biathlon World Championships, Saalfelden AUT. Fal...

Killington, Vermont and Mount Bachelor, Oregon, opened in USA....

11/2 October. Founding of East German Ski Federation....

First death in official Alpine championships causes FIS to rule that helmets must be worn. Falkner:...

Fred Langendorf and Art Molnar introduced the first all-plastic ski in Montreal, under the Toni Sai...

XXII. FIS meeting

Winter Olympic Games Squaw Valley, USA. Biathlon became an official Olympic discipline....

Start of Acrobatic Skiing. Stein Eriksen performed amazing feats....

Franz Kneissl made his first ski of epoxy glass fibre, and marketed it in competition with Sailer a...

The Rendezvous races from 1929-34 were relisted as FIS World Championships....

Instant Skiing by Clif Taylor was published. It explained how to teach beginners on short skis....

Rossignol engineer, Gaston Haldemann produced first hollow-core fibreglass skis. Skiing Heritage. D...

The Canadian Ski Patrol System became accredited as a National Charitable Organization – operating ...

Professional Ski Instructors Association formed....

Vail and Breckenridge opened....

XXIII. FIS meeting

Alpine World Championships, Chamonix, FRA. Nordic World Championships, Zakopane, POL. Jumps from tw...

Publication in USA of Skiing for Beginners in which Walter Foeger updated the description of his di...

12 January, Gunde Svan born Vansbro SWE

16 October Tamara McKinney born Lexington, Kentucky

18 July, Marc Girardelli born Lustenau, LUX

Erling Storedal organised first ski race for the blind in Norway....

Steamboat, Werner and Park City, Utah opened....

XXIV. FIS meeting

26 November. Vreni Schneider born Elm SUI

Ski Club of Great Britain set up National Ski Federation of GB as governing body to control ski rac...

29 January-9 February. Winter Olympic Games, Innsbruck, AUT....

Canadian Amateur Ski Association (C.A.S.A.) was renamed the Canadian Ski Association (C.S.A.). Cana...

The first Canadian ski demonstration team attended the 5th Interski Congress at Badgastein, Austria...

Lange produced first commercially manufactured plastic boot....

At Olympic Committee in Madrid it was decided that East and West German teams should race separatel...

The start of snowboarding. Sherman Poppen patented first Snurfer and went into production. At first...

XXV. FIS meeting

Nordic World Championships Oslo NOR

12 February Anita Wachter born Schruns AUT

7 April Michaela Figini born Prato SUI

16 December Alberto Tomba born Lazzaro di Savenna, ITA

Nancy Greene became first Canadian to win a World Cup race. Canadian Ski Museum/Musee canadien du S...

5 January Serge Lang with Honore Bonnet, Bob Beattie and Sepp Sulzberger launched the FIS World Cup...

19 June Bjorn Daehlie born Elverum NOR.

6-18 February Winter Olympic Games at Grenoble....

Schilthornbahn opened in Mürren by Ernst Feuz. Cablecar used in James Bond film “On Her Majesty’s S...

1968-72 Arto Tiainen official trainer for Finnish team. Nygren, Raevuori & Mäkikuutti: A Long Track...

Introduction of NASTAR tests....

1968-70 Bauer of Rothenkirchen developed the first artificial langlauf ski in the world. Falkner: M...

21 February Petra Kronberger born Pfarrwerfen AUT

24 March Stefan Eberharter born Brixlegg AUT

3 April Picabo Street born Triumph, Idaho, USA

4 June Deborah Compagnoni born Sondrio ITA

FIS Nordic World Championships Hohe Tatra, TCH. Alpine World Championships, Val Gardena ITA....

Crosscountry skis made with fishscale bottoms. John Fry: The Story of Modern Skiing....

World Cup Overall

2 September Kjetil-Andre Aamodt born Oslo NOR

The first Exhibition (Freestyle) national championships were held at Snowbird....

Winter Olympic Games, Sapporo, JAP. First FIS World Championships in Ski Flying. Planica JUG....

Isola 2000, FRA and Copper Mountain, USA, opened. ...

New big ski jump built of concrete at Lahti. 1972-83 Heikki Kantola Trainer for Finnish Team....

7 December Hermann Maier born Altenmarkt AUT

May Katya Seizinger born Eberbach GER

18 June Alexandra Meissnitzer born Abtenau AUT

Second Ski flying championships, Oberstdorf....

How the Racers Ski by Warren Witherall published....

Nordic World Championships, Falun SWE. Women’s relay (4x5km) won on fibreglass skis. Alpine World C...

First Finlandia Ski Race at Hameenlinna, Lahti. Finlandia Skis. 1982....

Ski Museum opened at Lahti....

Thorlief Haug’s daughter gave father’s 1924 Olympic medal to winner Andreas Haugen....

The new Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance, Level 1 Ski Instructors Course introduced. Normand Lapie...

Thomas Wassbergille on fibreglass skis beat John Mieto on wood skis by one hundredth of a second af...

Ski Flying championships, Mitterndorf Tauplitz....

The Canadian Ski Museum was incorporated in Ottawa. ON Canada. Canadian Ski Museum/Musee Canadien d...

Middle 1970s Telemark skiing was revived and developed as an individual discipline....

December. Ken Read became first Canadian male to win a World Cup. Canadian Ski Museum/Musee Canadie...

Canadian Association for Disabled Skiers (CADS) formed and Canadian Ski Coaches Federation (CSCF) i...

4-15 February Winter Olympic Games, Innsbruck, AUT....

12 October Samuel Bode Miller born Easton, New Hampshre USA

Ski flying championships, Vikersund NOR....

Nordic World Championships, Lahti FIN. Alpine World Championships, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, BRD....

Ski Flying Championships Planica JUG....

Master Racing recognised and FIS Masters Committee set up. ...

Winter Olympic Games, Lake Placid, USA....

Immo Kuutsa took over as Finnish Trainer....

Steve Podborski became Canada’s first male skier to win an Olympic medal (bronze) at Lake Placid. C...

Ski Flying Championships, Oberstdorf BRD....

Alpine World Championships Schladming AUT. Nordic World Championships Oslo NOR. New skating step ad...

Honour Roll of Canadian Skiing -Canadian Ski Hall of Fame - founded by Canadian Ski Museum. Canadia...

At Les Arcs, FRA Steve McKinney USA set new Speed record at 201.230 kph....

5 January. Janica Kostalic born Zagreb CRO

Ski Flying Championships Harrachov TCH....

Winter Olympic Games Sarajevo JUG. 20 km Ladies race introduced and skating step added to crosscoun...

The Gundersen method of Nordic combination was introduced. Competitors start the crosscountry accor...

Frank Meatto and Ed Pilpel of Olin Ski Co. apply for patent on alpine ski with radical sidecut. htt...

Nordic World Championships Seefeld AUT. Alpine World Championships Bormio ITA, Ski Flying Champions...

Ski Flying Championships Kulm AUT....

First Freestyle World Championships. Tignes FRA....

At the Nordic Ski World Championships in Oberstdorf GER crosscountry races were held using both cla...

In Sweden, V-style ski position shown in jump. (as experimented by Straumann in 1972) Triet (Ed) Ho...

First Telemark World Championships held at Hemsedal....

Canadian Ski Instructors Association ran 13th Interski Congress held at Banff, Alberta. Normand Lap...

Winter Olympic Games Calgary AB CAN. Super-G and Ski flying added as Olympic disciplines. Alpine ev...

World Nordic Championships, Lahti FIN. Different events for classical and skating step. 30 countrie...

World Freestyle Championships Oberjoch BRD....

Ski Flying Championships Vikersund NOR....

Val di Fiemme. Nordic World Championships, Technique for jumpers forming V with skis adopted. Alpin...

Freestyle World Championships Lake Placid USA....

Winter Olympic Games Albertville FRA....

Ski Flying Championships, Harrachov TCH....

FIS Nordic World Championships in Falun SWE. Alpine World Championships. Morioka JAP. (Super-G canc...

Winter Olympic Games, Lillehammer NOR. Winter and Summer Olympics were no longer to be organised in...

Canadian Association of Snowboard Instructors (CASI) founded. Canadian Ski Museum/Musee Canadien du...

FIS Congress in Rio de Janeiro (BRA) 125 delegates from 55 countries - The Team Competition in Nord...

Ski Flying Championships, Planica, SL0....

Nordic World Championships Thunder Bay, CAN. Freestyle World Championships. La Clusaz FRA....

First FIS Snowboard World Championships. Lienz, AUT. Giant Slalom, Parallel Giant Slalom; Parallel ...

Alpine World Championships, Sierra Nevada, SPA. Ski Flying Championships Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf A...

40th FIS Congress in Christchurch (NZE) 149 delegates from 62 countries - The Grass Skiing World Cu...

Snowboard World Championships San Candido/Innechen ITA included Giant Slalom, Parallel Giant Slalom...

Winter Olympic Games, Nagano JAP. Snowboard Giant Slalom and Halfpipe included....

First FIS Ski Historical Conference (Meeting of Ski Museum Directors) Holmenkollen NOR....

FIS Congress in Prague (CZE) 149 delegates from 63 countries - Marc Hodler retires. - Gian Franco K...

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships Ramsau, AUT FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Vail, USA FIS Fr...

Darron Powell AUS raised the snowboard speed record to 201.90 kph at Les Arcs....

Swiss Ski Federation had 878 clubs with 106,000 members....

FIS Ski Flying World Championships in Vikersund (NOR)....

FIS Congress in Melbourne (AUS) 139 delegates from 62 countries - Introduction of a limited number ...

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, Lahti FIN. New events: 10 km free and classical races together...

FIS Freestyle World Championships in Whistler (CAN). FIS Snowboard World Championships at Madonna d...

Second FIS Ski Historical Conference at Helsinki & Lahti FIN....

International Ski History Congress. (ISHA) Park City, USA....

Olympic Winter Games,Salt Lake City (USA). Including Snowboard – parallel, giant slalom and half-pi...

FIS Ski Flying World Championships, Harrachov (CZE)....

At the German/Austrian Four-Hills-Tournament, Sven Hannawald (GER) became the first ever to win all...

23 April. Philippe Goitschel (FRA) at Les Arcs (FRA) raised record speed to 250.70 kph, beating 24...

FIS Congress in Portoroz (SLO) 143 delegates from 67 countries - A new procedure for the election o...

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme (ITA). FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in St...

FIS Ski Historical Conference at Murzzuschlag & Graz (AUT)....

Canadian Ski Instructors Association national office doubled in size, moved to new location in Mont...

FIS Congress in Miami (USA) 141 delegates from 58 countries - Unanimous approval of the World Anti ...

30 January-13 February. FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Bormio (ITA). A new team event, won b...

20 March, Nordic World Championships included a Biathlon team event (2 women 2 men). Russia won....

30 April, at Les Arcs (FRA), Xavier Cousseau (FRA) raised the monoski speed record to 206.07 kph....

10-25 February: Olympic Winter Games, Turin (ITA). New FIS event: Snowboard cross....

45th International Ski Congress/FIS Congress at Vilamoura (POR)...

Simone Origone (ITA) set a new speed record at Les Arcs (FRA) of 251.40 kph. Raising the ladies' sp...

46th International Ski Congress in Cape Town (RSA). The first FIS Congress on the African continent....

Women's jumping