The grandfather is still skiing (Picture: CEN)

A grandfather who is 106 is still skiing in America and credits his legevity to only drinking the best-quality booze.

The man now claims to be the oldest active skier in the world.

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Lou Batori started tackling the winter sport 96 years ago in Hungary and he’s still conquering the mountains in his adopted home in America.

After starting aged 10 he now lives in Glen Arbor, Michigan.


Lou says: ‘Waiting to be carted away is a stupid waste of life.

Batori has been skiing for 96 years and has his own reserved spot in his nearest slopes (Picture: CEN)

‘You can replace anything – your shoes, your house, your belongings. But you cannot replace time so make the best of it.



‘Do everything within reason and sensibility.’

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The daredevil grandfather, whose birth name Lajos, has skied every winter since 1920.

He moved to America to study in 1936 and used a ski lift for the first time in 1940.

Lou has kept on skiing ever since and has won several Nastar ski competitions, the world’s largest known recreational ski race program, even taking part in them at the age of 100.

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He has become a celebrity in his home town, where he has been given a lifetime pass to the ski slope and has a reserved parking spot – the one closest to the ski lift.

Other skiers regularly stop and watch Lou in action at the Crystal Mountain Resort near his home.

Lou added: ‘I happen to like to play in the snow, meaning downhill skiing.

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‘I first started skiing when I was about ten, and I was still living in Hungary. From then on, it was normal procedure to ski every winter.’

Lou met his wife Judith in New York and the couple were together for almost 50 years until her death in August.

They lived together in Glen Arbor and went on motorbike trips together across the USA.

Lou says the ‘three ingredients’ for becoming a centenarian are: ‘A good wife, only drinking the best-quality liquor and picking your parents carefully.’

The former aviation engineer clearly has good genes, his father Oscar, lived until he was 90.