TPM Episode 435: Klaus Obermeyer, Skier, inventor, Entrepreneur, Legend, Part 2

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Mike Powell

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4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Klaus Obermeyer has had a bigger impact on skiing than any man alive, and when he wasn’t innovating the sport, he was in Aspen or traveling the world to ski. He was often found surrounded by a harem of beautiful women. In part 2 of his podcast, we talk about inventing sunscreen, mirrored sunglasses, ski brakes, the down jacket, and so much more. It’s crazy the innovations and the fun that Klaus has brought to skiing over his 105 years

Klaus Obermeyer Show Notes Part 2:

4:00: Aspen, 1947 ski school, Freedle Pfieffer, inventing a new ski boot, inventing sun block, raising money, inventing the down jacket,

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22:00: Inventing the mirrored sunglass, inventing the ski brake, inventing aluminum ski poles, patents, Snowmass, and Spider Sabich

34:00: Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better.

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36:30: Athletes, snowboarding, working a lot, and life

Transcript

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0:00.0	Have a seat on your porcelain throne.
0:02.3	It's time to talk some shit on the Powell Movement.
0:13.3	Welcome to the Powell Movement.
0:16.9	I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week it's more of the same for me, caretaking for my
0:21.9	wife and, and I'll let you know, the longer this goes on, the harder and more emotional things
0:27.6	get for me.
0:28.8	I'm not going to go into the detail of what this disease is doing to my wife because it's
0:32.9	fucking brutal and no one deserves to go through what she's been going through.
0:37.3	I feel so bad for her,
0:38.9	and there's nothing I can do to make her feel better. What sucks, actually everything sucks,
0:43.8	but what really sucks is just four years ago, our life was easy. We both had great jobs,
0:48.8	our kid is awesome, we built a great family and a great life. And for the past three years,
0:54.0	cancer has wreaked havoc on the
0:55.6	Powell family. I can't tell you how rough things have been for Ange. And personally, between appointments,
1:02.3	caretaking, laundry, the lawn, dinners, grocery shopping, staying on top of managing my kid,
1:08.0	getting a podcast done each week, selling stickers for my day job at
1:11.6	diecut stickers.com, and all the other things that go on in life, I feel like I'm drowning.
1:17.4	I just can't get up to catch my breath.
1:19.7	But so far, I've managed to keep everything going.
1:22.2	And a big part of my stress was alleviated by the GoFundMe that everybody's been contributing
1:26.6	to.
1:27.2	So thank you very much for everyone who donated.
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