Show s t AS A. A i PARK CITY CITY- Jim McConkey en cue ens of Utah's known best skiers and former member of the professional racing circuit will direct the ski school at the the new ww Park City resort which will open this winter McConkey's announcement came today from Tim Heydon director of the Tr Treasure asure Mountains l resort rp ort division and S S. K Droubay vi vice co president and general manager r of United Park City Mines iI i Co own own- era eJ of the tho acre area Both said they were happy to have a skier of McConkey's caliber call cali ber bel and international reputation directing the school From Canada McC McConkey 37 plans to start with five Instructors In addition to himself The school bd bel's bels s Will ring for the tho first time when the multi-million multi dollar around year resort begins operating early In December The likeable school director halls hails from Barrie Ontario Canada Can Can- ada where he learned to ski at atthe atthe atthe the age of six on the slopes of a golf course a gentle beginning ng for the tha man often called Americas Americas Ameri Amen cas ca's most daring skier He Ho first came to Utah in 1953 when he heI the ski school at Alta for forI I I his first Utah ski Job The son of an insurance career I man McConkey also sells Insurance ance once In the summer months when hes he's not performing before ski film cameras in lit Canada He has been associated with the Canadian Ski School where he be earned his associated instructors instructor's certificate in 1947 1941 In 1948 he was an Instructor for Luggi Foegel Foeger Foeger Foe Foe- ger gel at the Gray Rocks Inn Ski School near Mont Can Can- Canada ada He later worked under Foeger Foeger Foeger Foe- Foe ger at the Yosemite Ski School for thre years I Skiing Abilities the Best He also assisted in the construction construction con con- of at ski lifts in Canada operated a ski shop at Alta and taught the top class for Junior Bounous at Sugar Bowl Calif In 1961 Then he Joined the Inter I Professional Ski Racers Association As I and competed against i the best skiers in the world In iO I meets at Sun Valley Heavenly Valley Calif and In Ontario I His latest skiing exploits have McConkey featured In national ski mag magazines Ski October Issue I and in countless s ski movies which are shown throughout the world I He lIe has been filmed skiing on the the virgin snows of Canadian glaciers glaciers gla gla- ciers and the rugged Canadian in addition to several US U.S. resorts It was during one of these film tum ings logs that the slightly-built slightly always smiling skier almost lost his life me after falling failing some 85 feet down downa a This occurred on the Columbia Fields between Lake Louise and Jasper Park on a I tongue of the Glacier In Death neath Trap I Ironically the accident occurred while he was filming a snow res I cue movie All his skiing com com- companions I were therefore equipped I with ropes tee lee axes ice lee crampons and other rescue equipment and ho he was rescued within an hour but not before suffering a fractured collar colu bone several broken ribs and near suffocation I when he landed In to a pile pUe of crushed Ice head first on an Ice plug several hundred feet above the crevasse floor He was helped l out of the freez- freez freezing ing lug death trap death trap by Toni Matt now nowa a director of the New Hampshire Ski School and Herbert der son of the famous father tather of ot skiing Hanna Schneider Rut nut this didn't dampen his en for skiing and hes he's anxious anxious an an- to get his hia school under way it at Park City Th The new director tt w h moved to the scenic history history filled filled mountain community and will wUl I make hl his home there with his Ls wife wite Glenn Olenn of at Watsonville Cali Calif I The ski trails at Park City are some of the groomed best-groomed Ive I've seen anywhere McConkey says sae I There are hardly any rocks and andall andall all ill trails will be with only a i a fraction of at the snow that other I require This will make our longer much safer ufer and pore more enjoyable ha ho added I |