A Guide to Vintage Skis from Olympic skier Graham Bell | Erna Low Ski Holidays
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to ski on skis that are over 100 years old?
Olympic skier Graham Bell joins forces with journalist Peter Hardy in our video, which guides you through the differences between vintage skis from 1900 up to 1960, in celebration of Erna Low’s 80th anniversary!
Erna Low arranged her first group ski holiday in 1932 as a way to finance her family’s Christmas skiing holidays. Graham talks us through how Erna used an advertisement in a newspaper to get a group of 15 people together for a fortnight’s skiing holiday in Austria and how her knowledge of mountains and natural charisma sparked the beginning of one the UK’s leading ski holiday tour operators.
The vintage skis featured in the video include wooden skis with no knuckle edges and ‘break leg’ bindings. Despite the risk of getting into trouble when skiing on ice with these skis, Graham Bell demonstrates how to use them!
The 1900 vintage skis were the earliest and most difficult to use, but Graham describes them as being similar to modern day telemarking skis, with the exception that they have no edges and are a bit sticky (even he came to a stop when skiing on a slight incline).
The video also touches on the invention of après ski - an important feature of modern day ski holidays, which Peter gives credit to Erna Low for.
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Damned good skiing by Graham Bell there - he is making it look very much easier than the reality. Good for him, what days they must have been in the 1930's.
Thank you for your lovely video. You helped us identify the age of the 3 pairs of old wooden skis and boots my family has that belonged to our grandparents. They are older than we thought! They are the oldest skis, with no knuckle edges, and break leg bindings. We love them, but alas will not attempt to ski with them. Graham Bell is quite brave to have done so!
Love the demo of the old skis. They sounded like a nightmare but Graham made them look quite functional and fun!
Great Flick! Reminds me of the 1st rentals I tried, 1965 wooden skis with screwed on metal edges and a low cut leather boot. About that time Head Standards came along and everything changed for the good!
I have a pair of those 1960s skis. They rip the pistes even to this day. I absolutely love them
My first time skiing was a package from London to Kitzbuhel in 1969. I learnt with those 1960 style skis and boots. Scary looking back but a great beginning. And great apres ski.
I just bought a pair of old skis at the Toronto Ski Show. They were all wood, no metal edges and a simple slot where the toe binding would go. I got a lot of attention, mostly nervous smiles and questions about which walk I intended to decorate I fully intend to actually use them, accepting all liability. I feel a bit like a pioneer.
Absolutely wonderful and romantic to see a peek into the pioneering age!
loving the knitwear
Excellent video. I'd love to try 1900. Wow
Awesome video!
Very cool!
extremely cool video!!
Checked in for the cool old school, stayed for the apres.
Lovely video, nice idea, a much overlooked part of skiing - The binding and ski could be 1910 but thought metal edges were from Lettner in 1928 ?
My boi skiing on his toes
The ski come orginally from norway
Кто со ски ру?
Terrible Tele technique.
wow very unprofessional Graham, no helmet and no jacket... might be recreating how it was but come on!! safety first!!