This sport has its beginnings in Chile in the village of Farellones, in the 1930s, when they came from Switzerland and Norway the first wooden skis . Leather boots were coated with special grease colorless to avoid wet. The fixtures were very basic and dangerous in a hard fall as these continued fixed to the skis. The first ski lift was built in the 1950s: the Great Bajada, where the boldest jumped above the roof of the Hotel Posada de Farellones being the final arrival point.
Thanks to the efforts of a few pioneers, this town was growing and that was how in the 1940s, Antonio Padr�s failed to offer one of the first hotels in Farellones, Hotel Posada de Farellones, which later received a visit from the Duchess of Kent , to whom he offered a great mountain lunch. This was widely appreciated for their royal highnesses through the British embassy.
With the passage of time, gained great adepts Farellones skiing. First ski lift was installed in the area that later became the center of El Colorado-Farellones ski. Then he continued in the La Parva and finally the resort of Valle Nevado, made by the French in 1987. 2
Archaeology
Farellones not only stands out as a ski resort, but also by the archaeological findings made in the El Plomo . Since before the creation of the town of Farellones, this place was frequented by adventurers and carriers in search of ancient Inca treasures, as it was common to find remains of settlements and cairns pucar�s. Thus was found in this hill Inca sanctuary, located at a height of between 5,200 and 5,400 meters, where in 1954 he discovered the body of a child Inca frozen, released by the media of the time as the mummy Lead . The conservation of the "Mummy" is in charge of the National Museum of Natural History in Santiago de Chile.
House
At the end of the Course of Doom and the roadside in Valle Nevado is the House , of unknown origin, and used by carriers and camping
