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...Emile Allais is still serious about his work. When he isn't skiing, he is designing skis, ski boots and even goggles for skiers. He now spends half the year teaching at his own school in Portillo, Chile, hopes eventually to have a school of his own in the U.S. But he doesn't expect to convert the whole Western Hemisphere to the French method; his partisans claim more for his technique than he does himself. Says he dryly: "I do not pretend to have invented skiing...
Your Latin American department was off base in its comparison of the Portillo Hotel in Chile with our famous Sun Valley [TIME, Sept. 15]. You say the cost per person at Portillo Hotel is $9 a day with meals, while Idaho's Sun Valley Lodge costs $22 per day without meals, with an inference that this cost is the lowest rate. This is definitely not correct. The lowest rates at Sun Valley Lodge last winter for single occupancy in bachelors' quarters were $6.50 a day without bath. . . . The rates at the Portillo Hotel range upward from...
This year for the first time all the rooms in the Government's $540,000 Portillo Hotel were ready for skiers. Cost per person: $9 a day with meals. (Idaho's Sun Valley Lodge costs $22 a day without meals.) Argentines and Americans, as well as Chileans, took the sun on Portillo's terraces, drank pisco sours†and watched the condors circle high above the glacial Lake of the Incas. Almost everybody turned in at 10 so as to be bright and early for the morning's fresh snow and perhaps a lesson from French...
Novices rode a ski tow to take their first headers on a broad, snow-padded slope within easy stretcher-bearing distance of the hotel. But Kanonen (experts), led by Skimaster Allais, climbed by ski to the Christ of the Andes for a Schuss of six glorious miles tc Portillo. Or they took a thundering trail three precipitous miles to Juncal where railway handcars pumped them back to Portillo...
This week Allais' racers trained for the season's first tournament at Portillo. They took the slopes the French way-keeping skis always close together, swinging weight to turn. Such teachings are heresy in the U.S., where Hannes Schneider's Alberg school has ruled for years, and uncounted thousands have angled their skis in stem and snowplow turns. But to a man, the Portillo pupils raved about Allais. His theories, the Americans predicted, would soon sweep the U.S. Chile's Government, eager to foster Andean sport and latch on to a few badly needed tourist dollars...