The Oxford University Mountaineering Club (OUMC) was founded in 1909 by Arnold Lunn, then a Balliol undergraduate.
The first race was run on the 2 February 1925 and the competitors were Arnold Lunn and A. P. Allinson, C. J. Scaramanga and J. A. Joannides, Duncan Harvey and Charles Wenham, and John Mercer and A. H. d'Egville.
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However the event attained little attention beyond ski enthusiasts, so in 1922 the Englishman Arnold Lunn invented the shorter, but more difficult slalom race, which had greater appeal.