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Occasionally,
it's the most unlikely creations from the most improbable inventors that can have the biggest impact.
An outsider's eye offers an unprejudiced view of a problem and can sometimes herald the most innovative solutions.
So who better to find an answer to the question of how to convey skiers to the top of the slopes than a railway engineer from the dead flat prairies of Nebraska?
You're listening to Tall Stories,
a Monocle production brought to you by the team behind the Urbanist.
I'm Andrew Tuck.
In this episode,
Gregory Scruggs explains the story of an unlikely invention that changed the fortunes of ski towns the world over.
For the last several months,
millions of winter holidaymakers from Aspen to Arlberg have queued up in the snow,
shuffled their skis into position,