EDITOR'S NOTE: The late Conway Daily Sun ski columnist Nicholas Howe of Jackson penned this story on the American Infernos held in 1933, '34 and '39 on Mount Washington, with the latter won by then-19-year-old Austrian ski instructor Toni Matt when he "schussed" (straight down) the Tuckerman Ravine headwall to earn his place in American ski lore. Nick's story, which ran April 22, 2008, has been edited for length.
Author of "Not Without Peril," a chronicle of accidents on Mount Washington and the Presidential Range, Howe, 85, died April 4.
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