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...first three days, the storm dumped 3.5 inches of rain−75% of the 1964 rainfall−on the lowlands and four feet of snow daily in parts of the Andes. Just before dawn one morning in Portillo, a fashionable resort 9,000 ft. up in the Andes, an avalanche hurled a reinforced concrete hut 60 yds. down the slope, killing five of 14 skiers asleep inside. In Santiago, the flood-swelled Mapocho River swept away thousands of slum dwellers' shacks, turned the city's broad avenues into raging streams. And the wind! In one schoolyard, a group...
...Chilean towns, from Farellones to Villarrica, share the boom. Yet the new look of the mountains is most exciting at Portillo, the big resort built by the government in 1947 and then almost written off as a total failure. The idea was to provide a setting like something out of an old Sonja Henie film. The international set. though, was not about to travel to the bottom of the world, board a chuffy little train and travel for five hours to the edge of nowhere...
Wine at the Bottom. As the word got around, Chileans themselves started up to Portillo for a crack at its runs, such as the famed Juncal-down a 40° drop, to an iced-over stream and a snow bridge. At the lower stretches, where Chilean ski troopers were training, skiers could count on a swig of fine sparkling wine at the army post...
...lure the run-of-the-slope skiers who are making skiing a big business the world over (TIME, Feb. 9), Portillo went under new management this year. The base-broadening plan was developed by Ace Chilean Skier Sergio Navarrete, 32, heir to a steel fortune. In partnership with Landowner Jorge Petrinovitch and the Grace Line. Sergio rented Portillo from the government...
...Peter Estin and his ski-school teachers from Vermont's Sugarbush, got Panagra airline (50% Grace-owned) to set a ski-excursion round-trip fare of $420 (regular rate: $678) from Miami, and arranged an inexpensive ($2.50 a day) equipment-rental service in Santiago. Throwing up partitions at Portillo, he figures to expand capacity to 500, with $150,000 worth of ski lifts to haul them all. Even before remodeling and expansion, news of the new Portillo passed around so fast that Navarrete found himself with a season-long full house-plus an overflow that helped flood ski towns...