One nostalgic post (Runestone’s harkening back to his Jet Stix knock-offs) leads us to another. We came on this fascinating film that purports to show skiers in 1932 Poland’s Tatra Mountains (Geography lesson: The Tatra Mountains form a natural border between Slovakia and Poland, and are the highest mountain range in the Carpathian Mountains. Thanks, Wikipedia!)
On YouTube, the film is tagged (in Polish, translated by Google): “Former Tatra free riders in action. Portions of the movie ‘White trail’ of 1932. He represented Poland at the International Film Festival in Venice in 1932 and received the award for the pictures there. The ski scenes starring the best skiers of those years: Jan Marusarz, Stanislaw Marusarz and Bronislaw Czech Republic.”
Note the gear. Note the pleasingly rustic amenities. Note that eighty years before the GoPro Hero, skiers were capturing themselves and others on film. And note that your grandparent and great-grandparents were catching sick air long before anyone called it that.
