Now it is a popular holiday, climbing, and health resort, with several sanatoriums.
For most of the years in between, Mr. Kelly, who had been a high school wrestling star, was a fugitive, mastering the slopes, hang gliding and mountain climbing at European resorts, supported by money that officials said his parents sent him.
In addition, the introduction of the 'all-seater' ruling following the Taylor Report has meant that spectators no longer resort to climbing nearby buildings for a glimpse of the event as a seat is guaranteed with a purchased ticket.
They resorted to climbing in through first-floor windows.
To get even a weak signal at her Los Angeles apartment, Ms. Mak resorted to climbing up a ladder into the attic, then slithering through a crawlspace and out a small window onto the roof of her building, where she sat in a lawn chair making calls until her battery died.
The resort climbs a quiet hillside that overlooks the sea and features an extensive spa, steeped in traditional West Indian remedies.
About 25 miles south of Salt Lake City in the Wasatch Range of Utah, the Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort has a 115-foot climbing wall on the west face of the resort's Cliff Lodge.
"In 1938 it was the same with the Eiger north face," he says, referring to the notoriously difficult climbing route above the Swiss resort of Grindelwald.
Tourist numbers have been climbing, some lured from the chic resort of La Baule just down the coast, and Mr. Batteux, the mayor, says he has more plans for the waterfront.
Last November, 155 people were killed after a fire broke out in a ski train climbing through a steep tunnel at a resort.
