That was something Hannes Schneider instinctively knew. I in the early 1920s when a filmmaker named Arnold Franck came to St. Anton to begin filming cult ski movies. The Austrian traveled to Japan in 1930 to teach skiing. In the late '30s, he opposed the National Socialist movement and was placed in prison for four weeks before moving to New Hampshire where he founded a ski school and, in 1955, died. In 1937, shortly before he left, Schneider's dream of building a cable car was realized.
Faded photos show horses bringing a car for the area's first tramway into the valley.
Though modernized, tourists still ride the Galzigban to a mid-mountain restaurant and then take another cable car and still another tram to the summit of the Alps. Not long after World War II, lifts began appearing all over the Tirolian alps, defining the way modern resorts are built. After the war, Stefan Kruckenhauser, used his interest in photography to help teach skiing. One of Kurckenhauser's accomplishments was building a state-registered ski training program teaching uniform methods. Demschar would later benefit from that, spending 28 weeks over a three-year period to become a certified coach.