Comments on: The History of Skiing in Norway /history-of-skiing/ All Things Norway, In English Wed, 18 Jun 2025 05:36:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hugues de Rivals /history-of-skiing/#comment-1019189 Mon, 10 Jun 2024 22:23:45 +0000 /?p=40465#comment-1019189 Hi there,
This is a bottle to the sea: I am trying to find information on a ski competition that took place in Norway in 1936 (Galdhøpiggen), to which my grand mother participated. Apparently she won it. Her name was Geneviève du Manoir, nickname “Zizi”.
A family legend says that she left her nickname to a ski shuss slope there: no idea whether this is true or not: ? (couldn’t find anything about this).
Zizi tragically died in 1940, at the age of 28.
Anyone who could tell me a bit more about this ski competition in 1936 in Galdhøpiggen ? Anything available ?: press / photos / film from 1936 ? Does the Zizi schuss really exist ?
Zizi had a short but incredible life.
More info on Zizi :
Thks for helping if you can.
I know this is not exactly the kind of post you may expect. Pls accept my apologize for the inconvenience.
With Rgds,
Hugues de Rivals

]]> By: Forest Wagner /history-of-skiing/#comment-1002186 Mon, 05 Sep 2022 23:18:45 +0000 /?p=40465#comment-1002186 Hi David, thanks for the article.

I’m writing you from Juneau Alaska where I work as a researcher and instructor in the Outdoor Studies program at the University of Alaska Southeast. I’m interested in Norweigan skiing culture, especially primary source documents that might help me track environmental change in the circumpolar north over time. Let me know if you have a moment to chat.

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