1966/70 Skiing in the early days featuring Dag Aabye hot dogging, Whistler, BC

1966/70 Skiing in the early days featuring Dag Aabye hot dogging, Whistler, BC

The footage likely has 1966 footage as well. (updated)

23 Dec update - A delight to see how popular this video has become in less than a week. There may possibly be a few more well known Canadian and European skiers in the footage. Working on more details, please feel free to let me know you find.

Dag Aabye is the fellow in the Yamaha sports wear demonstrating a bit of hot dogging on the slopes. Dag Aabye (born 1941) is an endurance runner known for competing in the 125-kilometer Canadian Death Race, held yearly in August in Grande Cache, Alberta. The race is extremely grueling, with over 17,000 feet of climbing. Now 82 and living the hermit lifestyle near Vernon BC, he was a young man in his mid 20s during this time at Whistler.

In the 1960s, Aabye was a ski instructor in Britain and worked as a movie stuntman, including working as an extra in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger. He soon after moved to the Whistler Mountain area of Canada where he worked as a ski instructor and became known for his first ski descents of the mountain, sometimes 20 to 30 years before anyone else. He was also known for stunts, skiing off man-made structures and building a ski jump for back-flips, and appearing in a number of ski movies by filmmaker Jim Rice. Pelletier and Maruniak assert that "Dag is widely regarded as the founding father of free-skiing." He has been described as "the Father of Free Ride" and "The Last Ski Bum".

A surprising bit of history. Enjoy!

17 min 29 secs, 16mm 2k digital scan
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