The first principal of Snowbird’s Mountain School is believed to be on the current record holder for almost a year
(Courtesy photo of Sam Watson | Snowbird Resort) Junior Bounous, 95, former Director of Mountain School and Director of Skiing at Snowbird, is going on a backcountry heli-ski trip near Snowbird on Monday April 5, 2021 . With the expedition, Bounous is said to have become the oldest person in helicopter skiing.
Skiing advocates call it a lifelong sport. Take Junior Bounous as evidence.
At the age of 95, Bounous did four laps in the Wasatch backcountry near the Snowbird Resort on Monday, where he once worked with his first director of the Mountain School and later with his director of skiing.
Bounous reached the site with the help of Powderbird Helicopter Skiing and is believed to have set the record for the oldest person to ski by helicopter. According to the Guinness World Records, the oldest person to ever take part in helicopter skiing was 94 years and 306 days old. Bounous was 95 and 244 days old when he set off. According to a Snowbird press release, his family has submitted details of his expedition for review by Guinness World Records.
“It was incredible to have a day like this,” Bounous said in the statement. “I stand here feeling so sentimental that it’s almost hard to talk about. It was a special day that was never expected or expected. “
(Courtesy photo of Sam Watson | Snowbird Resort) Junior Bounous, 95, former Director of Mountain School and Director of Skiing at Snowbird, is going on a heli-ski trip in the backcountry near the resort on Monday April 5, 2021 . With the expedition, Bounous is believed to have become the oldest person in helicopter skiing.
Bounous is also among the first to ever take a helicopter ski tour. He and his wife Maxine were caught on the cover of an early issue of ski magazine skiing on Mount Timpanogos in the 1950s. Maxine, one of the country’s first female ski instructors, died last July at the age of 94.
Bounous was born in Provo on August 24, 1925. He became one of the first American-born directors of ski schools and has appeared in at least 10 Warren Miller films. In 1998 he was inducted into the US Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame.
The day was his 60th of the season and, according to the press release, was spent with his son Steve Bounous, daughter-in-law Suzanne Bounous, and granddaughters Ajya and Tyndall Bounous, and other friends.
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