František Příhoda (right) with his sister Alexandra and nanny in the first half of the 1920s

František Příhoda (third from the right) in the second half of the 1950s

František Příhoda (in front) in 1949 with a group of skiers on the ski lift in Sankt Anton

František Příhoda worked in 1949 as a ski instructor at the ski lift in Sankt Anton

František Příhoda in 1940 during a mountaineering ascent in the Český ráj

František Příhoda after emigrating from Czechoslovakia (centre) on a ski lift in Sankt Anton, Tyrol. It was driven by a retired wartime jeep. On the left stands former Czechoslovak Olympian Antonín Šponar, on the right František Příhoda's brother-in-law Karel Nekvapil

Australian team at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Frantisek Příhoda walking back left

František Příhoda (far left) with his cousins in the first half of the 1930s

Sister of František Příhoda Alexandra Nekvapilová as Czechoslovakian representative in 1946 during downhill training

František Příhoda's sister Alexandra Nekvapilová in the second half of the 1940s, when she represented Czechoslovakia in downhill skiing

František Příhoda's sister Alexandra Nekvapilová at the 1948 Winter Olympics in Svatý Moritz, where she represented Czechoslovakia in downhill skiing

František Příhoda's sister Alexandra Nekvapilová and her husband Karel Nekvapil in the 1950s

František Příhoda's sister Alexandra Nekvapilová in the 1990s at the veteran women's races in Australia

Sister of František Příhoda Alexandra Nekvapilová at the 1948 Winter Olympics in Svatý Moritz, where she represented Czechoslovakia in downhill skiing. Next to her stands another Olympian Antonín Šponar

Antonín Šponar at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz

Antonín Šponar building a bridge over the Thredbo River in the Snowy Mountains in 1956

Alexandra Nekvapilova's holiday cottage in Thredbo, second half of the 1950s

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