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Elisabeth Hussey, centre, receives the Marc Hodler Foundation award

Elisabeth Hussey first came to the Ski Club in May 1964 as Assistant Editor to Arnold Lunn on The British Ski Year Book. The Year Book later became Ski Survey in 1972 before it was launched as Ski+board magazine (as it is known today) in 1997.

Elisabeth arrived at the Club at a pivotal time, just as the newly founded National Ski Federation of Great Britain – later Snowsport GB – took on the responsibility of managing British ski racing from the Club.

Recalling her time on Ski Survey – on which she served as Editor from 1974 until 1992 – Elisabeth describes it as “the best job in the world”. The role took her to locations as far flung as North and South America, Japan, Australia, Russia and Finland, but she is particular fond of Murren, where Arnold Lunn held the first ever modern Slalom race in 1922.

As well as being an expert on all things snow, Elisabeth is also an authority on Arnold Lunn, who is credited with laying the foundations of Downhill and Slalom racing. Elisabeth has been instrumental in contributing to the documenting of skiing history, providing research for the FIS historical time line and American historian John Fry’s The Story of Modern Skiing amongst other projects. 

It is for this that she has been given the first annual Marc Hodler Foundation award, which she received from Sarah Lewis, Secretary-General of FIS on 20 November at the Kandahar Ski Club’s AGM.

The Swiss Marc Hodler was President of the International Ski Federation from 1951-1998 and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1963 until his death in 2006. He is best known for having exposed the Olympic bid scandal for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter games.

To find out more about Ski Club history, watch The Early Years of British Skiing video on SkiTV.

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