Most famed ski teacher in the world is Austrian Hannes Schneider, 48, who, more than any other person, is responsible for skiing's world-wide boom. Born at Stuben, a whistle stop in the Alps near the Tirolean border, Hannes as a boy watched people trying to ski down the long, steep, irregular Alpine slopes standing up straight in the ancient and honorable Norwegian fashion. To him it seemed foolish. He tried skiing in a crouch, taught his neighbors, then the guests at the village hotel. By 1920 Hannes Schneider had developed the
Arlberg technique, was...
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