| Our Founder: Dick Bass |
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My underlying dream for Snowbird is the creation of a year-round resort, which respects and complements the beauty and inspiration of this natural setting – a place dedicated to increasing human understanding through the enhancement of body, mind and spirit.” The Snowbird Renaissance Center is essential to this dream.
Certainly, Snowbird has been a giant leap into the unknown for a geologist and rancher who had never developed any real estate or resort projects on his own. As if Snowbird’s evolution were not enough for anyone’s nervous system, energy and pocketbook, starting in May 1981 Dick played hooky from time to time over a period of four years to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents. On April 30, 1985, he finally succeeded in his fourth attempt to scale Mt. Everest, and he became the first person to reach the seven continental highs, as well as the oldest by five years to summit Everest at age 55. (A record that fell in 1994 to a 60-year-old Venezuelan guitar maker.) Snowbird has been Dick’s passion (along with his wife, Alice) for nearly 30 years. Just gaze on the mountain from a balcony window in The Cliff Lodge and you can see how well this place mingles with nature, and how Dick’s dream of “the ultimate ski resort” is being realized. |
Often described as a Renaissance man and a visionary, Dick Bass, is one of the ski resort industry’s most dynamic and energetic personalities. In his own words, he was born with “blanket curiosity, nonstop verbosity, and hyper-enthusiasm.”
