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Meet the 'inventor of snow' - British snowmaking pioneer, Malcolm Clulow
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

The Financial Times has honoured British snowmaking expert Malcolm Clulow with a substantial feature on his successes in Dubai, Madrid, the UK and elsewhere. With a background in refrigeration engineering he was well placed to field this knowledge when interest in indoor snow skiing began in the late 1980s.

Malcolm Clulow and friends, at the original Telford 'World of Snow' building (opened 1989, now closed)
Photo: Acer Snowmec http://www.acersnowmec.co.uk

The article - click here - has one or two inaccuracies, but it contains some interesting detail on how Ski Dubai was conceived.
Quote:
... when Majid al Futtaim, a Dubai property developer, contacted him, Clulow found himself with a project on an altogether different scale to anything he’d faced before. “Majid al Futtaim is a skiing fanatic who goes to the US where he skies off-piste,” says Clulow. “Jeff Rosseley, the head of development of the ski dome, and his wife were also black run skiers, so they had a certain skiing ethic in mind.”

Both Majid al Futtaim and Rosseley insisted on several different grades of ski run, going from left to right, on a mountain where one wouldn’t be able to see the bottom from the top.


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