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Furrer, Art
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February 24, 1937 -
History
Art Furrer is a Swiss mountain guide, ski instructor, and hotelier. He was born on February 24, 1937 in Greich, Switzerland, and spent his childhood there involved in ski racing. He worked there as a ski instructor and mountain guide. After the young slalom skier was not selected by the Swiss Ski Association for the 1960 Winter Olympics, he emigrated to the United States in 1959 and worked there as a ski instructor, working for Leonard Bernstein and members of the Kennedy family, among others. After returning to Switzerland in 1973, Art Furrer moved to Riederalp, Switzerland, above his home village of Greich, and built the Art Furrer Resort there. At the same time, he began to perform freestyle skiing acrobatic shows, which he had first tried in the US. Six other hotels and restaurants on the Riederalp belong to his hotel group, as well as the Schlosshotel in Brig. The highest golf course in Switzerland is attached to his Art Furrer Resort. Art Furrer handed over the business to Andreas, one of his three children (two sons and a daughter), in 2008. His brother, Gregor Furrer, is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the sporting goods company Völkl Switzerland. Art Furrer is well-known in Switzerland for his 1990s appearances on the TV show "Do you understand fun?", which also gained him widespread recognition in Germany and Austria. In 2020, Furrer's hotels did not operate due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Greich, Switzerland
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Riederalp, Switzerland
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Ski acrobat
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Mountain guide
Hotelier
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RAD, July 2008 version. Canadian Council of Archives.
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Catalogued June 2022.