Smith Sport Optics was founded in 1965 by Robert Smith, a dentist and, above all, athlete and very keen skier who, in a bid to achieve supreme visibility on the snow, worked in his laboratory to come up with the first double-lens ski goggles: an extraordinary invention that made the problem of fogging a thing of the past.
The ski goggles immediately proved highly popular in the market and Smith Sport Optics soon became an established in the business and manufacture and distribution of ski goggles.