Word: skier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...barreled beautifully down Gstaad's ice-covered Horneggli-Schönried ski runs last week, but though the style was fearless, the conditions were fearful, and Spain's King Juan Carlos, 45, an expert skier, took a wild tumble that cracked his pelvis. Taken by stretcher to a hospital in the nearby Swiss town of Saanen, Juan Carlos was flown with his wife, Queen Sofia, to Madrid the next day aboard the royal DC-8. Ordered immobilized by his doctors for at least a month, the King will be fulfilling his duties from...
BORN. To Annemarie Moser-Proll, 29, competitive, headstrong Austrian 1980 Olympic gold medalist skier and six-time World Cup winner, regarded by many as the greatest woman downhill racer of all time, and Herbert Moser, 32, a ski-equipment salesman: their first child, a girl. Name: Marion. Weight: 6 Ib. 12 oz. Although Moser-Proll once before came out of retirement, she now claims to have quit racing permanently...
...route rises 6,000 ft., almost straight up from the roadhead, to peaks of 13,000 ft. and more. One requirement: a small radio transmitter for avalanche protection. Other arcana may include polypropylene underwear, vapor-barrier booties and avalanche-probe ski poles. The reward of the trek is skier's cocaine: unmarred 1,500-ft. alpine slopes. Experts claim the trail is the equal of Europe's Haute Route from Chamonix, France, to Zermatt, Switzerland...
...back country. There, distinctions are blurred: touring fans discover the speedy pleasure of schussing, and downhillers get an aerobic workout on cross-country skis. The two passions meet in a 120-year-old technique called telemarking-a turn of great difficulty-which offers balance to the free-heeled skier. One ski is extended beyond the other until the skier is crouching. The rear ski rudders the front one into the turns necessary for steep downhill flights. One aficionado calls it "genuflecting on the run." A new generation of skis, slightly wider than the usual touring model and metal-edged...
...catastrophe was only the most extreme of the storms that struck the country last week. The winds from the Pacific blew eastward, covering parts of the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada with as much as 10 ft. of snow, and triggering more than 100 avalanches in Colorado alone; one skier died there...