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Art Furrer (born February 24, 1937 in Greich ) is a Swiss mountain guide , ski instructor and hotelier .

Life

Furrer grew up in the small mountain village of Greich in the Aletsch region and initially worked as a ski instructor and mountain guide. After the young slalom skier had not been selected for the 1960 Winter Olympics by the Swiss Ski Association , he emigrated to the USA in 1959 and worked there as a ski instructor - among others for Leonard Bernstein and for members of the Kennedy family . Furrer has a daughter and two sons, one of whom Andreas runs his business. His brother Gregor Furrer is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the sporting goods company Völkl Switzerland.

After returning to Switzerland in 1973, Art Furrer moved to Riederalp, above his home village of Greich, and built the Art Furrer Resort there. At the same time he began to make known in Switzerland his acrobatic ski show skills, which had been tried and tested in the USA .

Today his hotel group includes six other hotels and restaurants on the Riederalp, including the castle hotel in Brig . The highest golf course in Switzerland is connected to his Art Furrer Resort . Art Furrer handed the business over to Andreas, one of his children, in 2008.

Art Furrer is mostly in Switzerland, in the 1990s through appearances on the TV show Do you understand fun? also became widely known in Germany and Austria. His most famous appearance was a film shot in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in which he pretended to be a ski student and appeared with four meter long skis at the ski lesson. He exhibited these skis, specially produced for the show by the Völkl company , in the Tenne restaurant .

The hotels ceased operations in 2020.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hotel Journal Switzerland
  2. ↑ Hotel operations ceased
personal data
SURNAME Furrer, Art
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mountain guide, ski instructor and hotelier
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Greich