The story of the Courchevel 1850 ski-school began in 1947 with the birth of the resort at 1850. The first winter saw only 3 instructors! Camille Curtet, Jean Sallier and Léo Zavanisky, who would eventually take charge of the school when officially created in 1951. By 1960, they were already 60 instructors.
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 ESF
season 1953/54
The ESF in 1953/54. First row from left to right:
Régis Charlet, Jean Chalon, Augustin Parrour, Mario
Pizzi, Jean Sullice and Robert Blanc.
Second row:
Guy Falcoz, Georges Couttet, André Lugon, Lucien
Morand, Léo Zavanisky (the director), Jo Blanc, Alix
Poncet, André Minot, Camille Curtet, Jean Sallier
and Antoine Leduc.
A few years later, in the late fifties.
A group lesson at that time.
In
1968, the olympic flame, which came from Méribel
through la Saulire, stopped over in Courchevel on the road
to Grenoble.
From left to right: André Simond, Léo Zavanisky (wearing an ESF sweater in the center), Jean Chalon (in the background) and Pierre de la Gontrie, the mayor, holding the flame.
Régis
Charlet proudly holding the flame...
In
the seventies, two pretty instructresses (Yvette Chapuis
and Sylvie Trolez) near the finish line of
the slalom stadium Emile Allais.
At that time, the ESF Courchevel 1850 consisted of 150 instructors
and 25 children's instructresses. In 1972, the ESF moved
into the newly built la Croisette.
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