"PSmith" wrote:

I recall many years ago reading a book about the history of skiing. The
British popularised winter holidays in Wengen and to stop them getting
bored, they popularised skiing as a recreational sport. Prior to that time,
only mountain dwellers skied and then only as a means of transport.

Any DHO members going to comment?


Your author was in error. There were no skis in Switzerland prior to
their importation (by foreign tourists) from Scandinavia in the 1870s.