Friedl Pfeifer
A certified climbing guide at age 18 and a member of the Austrian FIS team at 22, he became the first of his countrymen to win the Kandahar, considered in 1936 to represent the World Championships. Friedl left Austria in 1938 and became a U.S. citizen, winner of a national ski championship and the Harriman Cup, and director of the ski school at Sun Valley. While training with the 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale during WWII, he was introduced to Aspen. He returned there in 1945 to operate the ski school and helped to develop both Aspen (Ajax) and Buttermilk Mountains.