Hotel Kosciusko in the Snowy Mountains before the fire. Antonín Šponar built a new hotel on the burnt down site

Old cable car from Thredbo to Eagle's Nest in the Snowy Mountains

Old cable car from Thredbo to Eagle's Nest in the Snowy Mountains

Alexandra Nekvapilova's tourist cottage in Thredbo in the early 1960s

View of the slopes in Thredbo

Peaks of the Snowy Mountains in winter

Hotel built by Antonín Šponar in Snowy mountains

Antonín Šponar with his wife Elisabeth and child in Thredbo in the first half of the 1950s

Construction of the first tourist huts in Thredbo in the 1950s

František Příhoda in 2007 at a ski race. He was 85 years old

František Příhoda around 2020 in front of a photo of his sister Alexandra

František Příhoda in 2021 during his birthday celebration

A painting created in honour of František Příhoda's 100th birthday

František Příhoda in 2020, during the filming of an interview with Ondřej Boháč, who was then head of the Czech embassy in Canberra

František Příhoda with an honourable mention from the Czech Embassy in Canberra, Australia, 2021

František Příhoda at the celebration of his 100th birthday

František Příhoda at the celebration of his 100th birthday in 2021, during the covid pandemic, guests wore veils

Hall in Thredbo ready for the celebration of František Příhoda's 100th birthday

František Příhoda (right) in Thredbo by the new gondola, 2021

František Příhoda in the new gondola cablecar in Thredbo, 2021

František Příhoda (right) with his Olympic diploma, 2020

František Příhoda in 2020, when a ski slope was named after him in Thredbo

František Příhoda in 2020 in Thredbo in front of a collection of old skis

František Příhoda in 2020 in the Snowy Mountains

František Příhoda at the celebration of his 100th birthday