He was there on wooden skis when Coronet Peak opened 62 years ago – last week he returned for his 80th birthday. With Leicester Chilton on several runs last Thursday were (pictured from left) daughter Juliet Chilton and grandkids Skye Lancaster, 19, and Daniel, 10.

An 80-year-old man who attempted a two-metre ski jump on the weekend was rushed to hospital with a broken hip. An Ambulance Victoria helicopter flew the injured man, a regular skier at Mt Buller since the 1950s, off the mountain to Melbourne yesterday afternoon.