Career
Formo also competed in orienteering, winning a bronze medal in the relay at the 1974 world championships. He represented the club SFK Lyn. In 1979 he was part of the Lyn Jukola orienteering relay winning team
After retiring as an athlete he had a successful career as a businessman, and served as chairman of the cross-country committee (1983-1988) in the International Ski Federation.
Formo earned an engineering degree, and was chairman of the board of Ignis at the time of his death. His unexpected death made headlines in Norway after he was found drowned in the lake Store Sandungen in Nordmarka, the forests surrounding Oslo.
He had gone jogging and skating through the area and had most likely fallen through the ice.