Harvey Clifford

Clifford grew up in Ottawa, Canada and was educated at Glebe Collegiate Institute where he was head boy.^[1] He competed in three events at the 1948 Winter Olympics.^[2] He coached Canada's skiing teams for the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1950 and the 1952 Winter Olympics.^[1] He was inducted into the Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame.^[3] His skiing on Aoraki / Mount Cook, was in the Academy Award nominated for Short Subject (Live Action) film Snows of Aorangi (1955).^[4][5]

Clifford worked for eight years as the president of the Mount Snow ski resort in Vermont, and later worked in that same capacity for a ski development on Stratton Mountain for seven years. In November 1981 he underwent surgery for a brain tumor. He died on 13 January 1982.^[1]