Show S Story oly of At Alta fn Ski in in Hook Book Jill Kinmont a leading can cann for the U S S Olympic ski team who crash crashed d tragically in the 1955 Snow Cup Race at Alta Utah is the subject of a book published by Harper Rowan Row on August 31 Following the accident Miss Kinmont was hospitalized for several months In Salt Lake City Utah She was left permanently paralyzed from the shoulders down Her Iler biography which shows how a skier is made is titled A Long Way Up The Story of Jill Kinmont It is by E G Valens and is illustrated with 16 10 pages of photographs THE ANNUAL SNOW Cup Gup race at Alta was the last im- im hn important race before the pie pic tryouts and Miss Kinmont says she was determined to win winit lt it The Snow Cup is d described as s a traditionally tong long and nd steep giant slalom slalom in the Was atch Mountains at Alta AUn Utah As she waited to o begin She felt I as If she owned the world or would very shortly Mr Valens writes He describes the race as fol lows JILL STARTED with a sur sur- sur surge ge of power crouched low in inthe the he straight away and then bar rel d down through the he fast swooping turns on the upper part of th the course ours wi with h II a wind rid at her back The snow was raster faster than shed she'd expected and she found herself low on a gate slipping still lower and nearly falling as she struggled to hang onto the hill She had recovered by the I time she shot down t toward ward the trees and the left turn above i the Corkscrew where she had ali al ways checked during practice This time she did not check be I cause she had already decide decided I that the racer who let his skis run here bere was likely to win I She got ready to the I foot tour high knoll but she w was s moving too fast and she started her jump two or three seconds instead d of she lI lifted ted just where the snow surface itself rose up to the stubby plateau SHE SHE HAD BAD FLUNG herself high into the air and and was flying oft off balance and aware only of the blur of trees coming up at her from below She fought foughty to get forward over her skis and raised one arm to protect her face from being smashed ag against the tre tree t trunks She missed the trees arid and screamed am d dat at two who where were now yIh ti kith She trash ed onto the snow V slid sUd an and l 4 n feet and i slammed into one of the spec carrying him on down the hm hill thrashing and cart cart- wheeling s When she stopped Aiding she had the odd f feeling that parts of her were somehow somehow not con conn S She e thought l immediate ly mayb maybe this is the way die As a result of the accident she was p permanently paralyzed d from the shoulders down TAKEN TP TO THE hospital in Salt Lake City City she was amazed at the hospitality offer offered d her herand and nd her parents and friends the theauthor theauthor author writes There were dozens of letters from friends an hundreds from strangers Many of them con can Lamed dollar bills even a few fives and tens Jill was puzzled that so many p people ople she did not know should be concerned The p people op e of S Salt lt Lake City sent gifts and words of cheer and many offers of a temporary ry home fOr Jill's parents They I lent her r father a car and Jill Jilla Jilla a television set set- setHer set tier Her father fathel kept saying Nobody asked what they could do to hel help they just j st helped THE JUNIOR Chamber of Commerce which had sponsor ed the Snow Cup donated the gate receipts from the race to help meet hospital expenses Mr Valens writes After several months there she was yas moved to to a hospital j in Santa Monica Calif and andI I then she went to the California I Rehabilitation tion Center In L Los s An An- AnI Angeles I geles Her family owned a ranch at Bishop Calif wh which ch they were forced to sell to meet expenses Miss Kinmont was a quadri quadri- quadriplegic confined to a wheelchair but she he enrolled at UCLA reo re a BA degree and then tl n took postgraduate courses Determined n not lt to be just an skier ox-skier In a wheelchair she began searching g for fog new val ues Mr Valens shows She be be- be came 8 teacher and now teach teach- teaches teaches es remedial reading In a pall pair of elementary schools in the Mercer Island School District between Renton and Seattle Washington tier lIer family lives at atI I Renton |