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HATS OFF TO
BILLY KIDD
HATS OFF TO
BILLY KIDD
Heavenly Ski Adventures with
Olympic Medalist, Billy Kidd
By Chander P. Lall
Copyright © 2015 Chander P. Lall
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Made For Success Publishing
P.O. Box 1775
Issaquah, WA 98.75
First Edition January 2015
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lall, Chander P.
Hats off to Billy Kidd: Heavenly Ski Adventures with Olympic
Champion, Billy Kidd
p.cm.
eBook ISBN: 978-161339-849-4
Print ISBN: 978-161339-756-5
1.BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
2.BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports
3.BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
Book Designed by DeeDee Heathman
Printed in the United States of America
Professional photographs used by permission-Larry Pierce Photography
CONTENTS
Chapter 3-Billy Kidd and Chander Lall-Grand Adventures ........................... 31
Chapter 4-Chander Lall and Friends- Living the Life ...................................... 49
William Winston – Billy Kidd
William Winston “Billy Kidd” grew up in Stowe Vermont. With great encouragement from his father, he became a Top junior ski Racer. Despite serious injuries suffered during his racing career, Billy became an American Legend on the world skiing stage. When Chander started skiing, he heard about Billy Kidd and over many years determined to ski in Billy Kidd’s tracks. After many years working for Boeing in Renton, WA, Chander decided to write a biography about his lifetime adventure, meeting and skiing with Billy Kidd, in God’s precious country, Steamboat Springs, Colorado U.S.A.
“I am honored and thankful to Chander Lall for all the hard work in creating this Wonderful Book” – Billy Kidd.
Chander is grateful to Billy Kidd for his gracious generosity and honored to consider Billy a dear friend and to share his life with Billy.
Vickie Guzman
Vickie Guzman is a friend of Chander and they live in the same Apartment Complex. Chander came to know Vickie while he was writing this book about Billy Kidd and their skiing adventures. She is intelligent and a whiz with computers so he asked her to help make his book the BEST ever. There were times that she came to his aid and the result is this magnificent biography.
DEDICATION
CHANDER PARKASH LALL
About the Author
Chander Parkash Lall was born in Mianwali, Punjab, India on April 6, 1932. Mianwali was at the end of the Railway line in those days. This part of India was close to the Afghanistan border and most of the people were tribesmen, Pushtoons, who migrated back and forth across the border quite freely. Chander’s Dad, Inder Mohan Lall Gera and his mother, Daropadi Chawla, moved to Lahore, Capital of Punjab where his father joined the ICS and became a Judge in the Punjab High Court. Chander was admitted to
CHAPTER 1
St. Anthony High School on Lawrence Road. Years went by and Chander had an excellent education and loved sports and played Football, Hockey, Cricket, Swimming and many more. After the Partition of India, the Family lost their home in Lahore and moved to Delhi.
Chander Lall, followed his older brother, Tilak to California, United States in 1949. Chander studied first at the University of California in Berkeley and then graduated from University of Colorado in Boulder, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering. After working in the State of Kansas engineering buildings, grain elevators, highways and bridges for the Kansas Turnpike, Chander was hired by Boeing to work on the Boeing Model 707 commercial jet airplane. What a dream this was for Chander, to work on the most successful family of commercial jet airplanes ever built, and live in the State of Washington, a paradise of mountains, lakes, rivers, and Pacific Ocean. Always interested in improving himself, Chander continued his education, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering followed by a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington in Seattle.
With the downturn of the Seattle economy in the mid-seventies, Chander found himself looking for a new job. He turned adversity into opportunity by finding work on the Alyeska Pipeline Project, which was being built over 800 miles of Alaska wilderness from Prudoe Bay to Valdez. This was a turning point for him as the high monetary compensation he received for his hard work provided him with the capital to finance future real estate and other business ventures.
Chander eventually returned to Seattle and Boeing, and for the next 25 years, he taught himself about real estate by buying and selling many properties in various parts of metropolitan Seattle. Most were multi-family dwellings such as apartment buildings. Chander made a lot of money, and lost some as well – it was all a process of learning and education in real life. But throughout