Arnold Lunn

Sir Arnold Lunn (* April 18, 1888 in Madras, India; † 1974 in London, England, famous skier, mountaineer and writer. His father Henry Simpson Lunn (1859-1939, methodist reverend and founder of Lunn's Travel agency that would become Lunn Poly) encouraged tourism in the Swiss Alps in the tradition of Thomas Cooks famous travel agency in the early 20th century. Introduced to skiing by his father, Arnold Lunn became a renowed skier and invented the slalom skiing race in 1922. He initiated in collaboration with the Austrian skiing pioneer Hannes Schneider the famous Arlberg Kandahar Challenge Cup in honour of Lord Roberts of Kandahar.

His writings include:

• The Mountains of Youth, 1924.
• Switzerland and the English, 1944.
• Mountains and Memory, 1948.
• The Kandahar-Story, 1969.