“Mountain” 100 ft high and covered with artificial snow to the depth of 10 to 25in is being completed in the 12-acre hall at Earl’s Court, London, for the first indoor ski-ing championships ever held in Great Britain. A team of experts from Norway, Canada, Tyrol, Switzerland and Britain will participate. The mountain has gradients varying from 1 to 29 to 1 in 3; it has lots of 30ft pine trees adding a suitable background which is real enough, even though it is made in machines and laid on by hoses which can force it 50ft from their nozzles. When the championships are not on the experts will be giving ski-ing lessons —a profitable pastime, as a good teacher during the season can make £3O to £4O a week.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1939, Page 10
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