While locals are recognizing the 10th Mountain Division’s 80th anniversary of the capturing of Mount Belvedere on Feb. 25, documentarian Chris Anthony is on-site in Europe capturing footage of an area where the division participated in a ski race after the war.

If it sounds a lot like the plot of his last documentary, “Mission Mt. Mangart,” which shared the details of the 10th Mountain Division’s participation in a ski race after the conclusion of World War II, it’s meant to be.

That’s one of the interesting aspects of the sequel film, Anthony said, the fact that the 10th Mountain Division participated in not one but two ski races in Europe after the conclusion of the war. So in that way, this new film will be the second part of a two-part body of work about the 10th participating in ski races after the war, and Anthony’s attempts to gather more information about it.

In an attempt to capture shots for his film this week, Anthony climbed the mountain face that the 10th was on 80 years ago, a mission he said which was much more difficult than anticipated.

“Nothing was easy about this day,” Anthony said, but nevertheless “I think I got the shot.”

In his travels, Anthony has run into several interesting characters who have helped shape his work. One person, who helped him create “Mission Mt. Mangart,” would often notice that in the old photos of the 10th Mountain Division participating in ski races, only some of the photos were taken on Mangart.

“I kept coming across certain photos where my contact was saying that’s not on Mangart,” Anthony said. “It turns out that there was another race, three weeks later in Austria on Grossglockner, the highest peak in Austria.”

Anthony then sought out a drone filming permit and has since found the location of the race.

In learning more about the race, he discovered a familiar name on its historic list of winners — Friedl Pfeifer, one of the creators of the Aspen ski mountain — won the first race in the annual Grossglockner series in 1935-36.

In learning of that detail, Anthony’s exploration has pivoted a bit into a biography of Pfeifer.

He also went to St. Anton, Austria, to learn where Pfeifer was born, where he skied through town, past the Hannes Schneider ski school. Schneider recruited Pfeifer to be an understudy at the school, and funded him to be in races like the Grossglockner. Schneider and Pfeifer were eventually able to get to the United States, Schneider went to Cranmore Mountain in New Hampshire, and Pfeifer made his way to Sun Valley, Idaho, before joining the 10th Mountain Division during World War II. Pfeifer ended up at Camp Hale, where he made the “The Trooper Traverse” from Leadville to Aspen in 1944.

“He vowed if he could make it through the war he would want to come back there,” Anthony said.

Anthony intends to create “Mission Grossglockner” in the same way he created “Mission Mt. Mangart,” as a teaching tool to bring to classrooms in Colorado. He is currently raising funds to help see the production of the film through.

Through his youth project, Anthony reaches hundreds of kids each year providing on-snow opportunities, as well as ski-related lessons like that of “Mission Mt. Mangart” and “Climb to Glory, Legacy of the 10th Mountain Ski Troopers,” a film produced by Warren Miller Entertainment which Anthony worked on during his long career as a Warren Miller film star.

The 501(c)(3) foundation has engaged with more than 85,000 students over 20-plus years through school programs.

Those interested in contributing to Anthony’s latest film project can visit the “Mission Grossglockner” tab on the Chris Anthony Youth Initiative website to learn more.

“The 10th Mountain Division ended up here June 23, 1945,” Anthony said from Austria this week. “Some of the men summited the mountain while others had a ski race.”