Schilthorn Jacket

While skiing’s invention and inception is credited to the Scandinavians, unknown to many, is the fact that the modern racing format of the sport and its earliest formalized ski clubs were created by a group of iconoclastic Brits who loved the wind rushing and hair raising euphoria of skiing. Such was alpine sport in continental Europe when awoken to the fervor of down-hilling by Sir Arnold Lunn, a skier, mountaineer, and writer who Founded Britain’s the world famous Kandahar Ski Club in 1924. Motivated by a pure downhiller’s spirit combined with an attitude of constant experimentation, Lunn ultimately invented the proper slalom race format. Thereafter Lunn’s Inferno Race as it would be called, became a a diabolically challenge designed to test the very best skill, will, and speed of racers from the around the world. Today members of the world renowned Kandahar Club continue to host the Murren Inferno Race while regaling the deeds of its competitors much in the same spirit as conducted 100 years ago. A setting of high taste combine with a passion for the outdoors and alpine sporting achievement, the Kandahar Club itself was known as much for its ski crazed members as it was for the first class wardrobes associated with its members on and off-piste. Channeling Lunn’s British roots and his alpine sports club’s gentlemanly cache, Alps & Meters introduces the Schithorn Jacket. Named after the peak from which the famed Inferno race begins, this all seasons coverall commands Italian craftsmanship, a richly baffled wool face fabric, and beautiful suede overlays exuding a high taste mixed medium of natural materials. Designed for the Gentleman Sportsman and Including the coat of arms of Murren, Switzerland, the Schilthorn Jacket is an evergreen outwear piece celebrating of the Kandahar Club’s sporting legacy and polished British origins.