Hugo Lehner was a Swiss mountain guide

Mountain guide

Mountain guides are specially trained and experienced mountaineers and professionals who are generally certified by an association. They are considered experts in mountaineering.-Skills:Their skills usually include climbing, skiing and hiking...

 and skier. He competed together with Fritz Kuhn, Otto Furrer

Otto Furrer

Otto Furrer was a Swiss alpine skier and cross-country skier and world champion.Furrer was born in Zermatt. He became a world champion in the combined event, received a silver medal in the slalom and a bronze medal in the downhill in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1932. He was killed in an accident on the...

 and Anton Julen in military patrol

Military patrol

Military patrol is a team winter sport in which athletes compete in both cross-country skiing respectively ski mountaineering, and rifle shooting. It is usually contested between countries or military units. Biathlon was developed from military patrol....

 at the second winter Olympics

Military patrol at the 1928 Winter Olympics

At the 1928 Winter Olympics, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in 1928, a military patrol competition was held. Because of a snowstorm the night before the competition, the start of the event was delayed 45 minutes to the cleaning up of the track. The competition was contested over a 30 km distance...

 in St. Moritz in 1928, where the team placed third.

Lehner also performed in famous movies such as "Der Kampf ums Matterhorn" (1928; "Fight for the Matterhorn"), in which he portrayed Hudson, "Der Ruf des Nordens" (1929), "Berge in Flammen" (1931; "Mountains on Fire"), and "Der Rebell" (1932).