From Chamonix and St. Moritz in the European Alps to Aspen, Colorado, and Lake Louise, Canada, this beautifully illustrated volume features 40 of the most celebrated, fashionable, and diverse skiing destinations in the world. Each resort is treated individually, with the author's vivid and lively description, handsome color photos, and an information panel that tells readers how to get there, the site's altitude, number of lifts, types of pistes or ski runs, the resort's special advantages, and its drawbacks. Each description also features a small map showing nearby cities and approaches by highway. The resorts and sites described encompass the globe, and are categorized by home country. Described in France are Val d'Isï¿½re et Tignes, Courchevel et les Trois Vallï¿½es, la Grave et les Deux Alpes, and others. Included among Austrian resorts are St. Anton-am-Arlberg, Kitzbï¿½hel, and Ischgl. For Switzerland, the book covers Zermatt, Berbier, St. Moritz, and others, and for Germany, Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Still other resorts include Italy's Cortina d'Ampezzo and Selva e Val Gardena, Scandinavia's ï¿½re and Riksgrï¿½nsen and Narvik, Canada's Whistler and Blackcomb, Lake Louise and Banff, and Fernie—and for the U.S., Aspen, Jackson Hole, Lake Tahoe, Vail, Telluride, and others. Literally the whole world is covered, including resorts in Japan, New Zealand, and Australia. Described for the extra-adventurous advanced skier are several remote "helidrop" areas that are not resorts, but which feature wonderful slopes. Among them are Manali in the Himalayas and Valdez in Alaska. Hundreds of beautiful full-color photos help make this handsome book a reliable ski vacationer's guide and an armchair traveler's dream book.

Top Ski Resorts of the World

Sports & Outdoors

Wilson, Arnie

Winter Sports

B E S Pub Co

On May 6th, 1903, ten men sat down to dinner at the Cafe Royal in London and started a ski club. It would become the most famous in the world—the Ski Club of Great Britain. In those days, to the British, skiing was little more than a slightly odd sport practiced by English eccentrics. Over the years, the Ski Club published an almanac, which became a document of fascinating, amusing, and downright weird anecdotes of the Brits on the slopes, as the sport went from being a minority diversion to the worldwide obsession it is today. Snow Crazy is a collection of these anecdotes—a companion for the millions of ski addicts across the world.

Snow Crazy: A Hundred Years of Stories of Derring-Do From the Ski Club of Great Britain

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Metro_Books

To "ski the world" was the dream of Arnie Wilson and his French girlfriend, Lucy Dicker. Their journey began in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on January 1st 1994, and took them across five continents, to 240 resorts, and earned them a place in the Guinness Book of Records. Fighting the clock and the elements, Arnie and Lucy took on the Rockies, the Alps, the Himalayas and the Andes, never knowing what was in store for them, but found their love and trust growing. On New Year's Eve, 1994, the couple arrived back at Summit County, Colorado, in triumph. Amidst the celebrations they talked of marriage and the children they would share. Then, on a clear, sunny day in the Alps, tragedy struck. In a treacherous couloir, above La Grave, Lucy slipped. She slid hundreds of feet on the pitiless ice to die with Arnie's arms wrapped around her. This is a story of love and magic, of a couple who made the world theirs and then, in one calamitous moment, lost it all.

Tears in the Snow: A True Story of Love, Courage and Danger

Biographies & Memoirs

Blake Pub.

Swept along in the midst of a love affair, Arnie Wilson and his French girlfriend Lucy Dicker decided to ski every single day throughout 1994. Their adventure took them to 240 resorts and earned them a place in the Guinness Book of Records, as they took on the treacherous slopes of the Rockies, the Alps, the Himalayas, and the Andes. On New Year's Eve 1994, they triumphed. Then on a clear, sunny day in the Alps, tragedy struck, as Lucy slipped to her death, wrapped in Arnie's arms. This is the true story of love, strength, and loss.

Ski The World: A True Story Of Love, Courage And Danger

Biographies

John Blake

On 6 May 1903, twelve men sat down to dinner at the Caf Royal in London and started a ski club. It would become the most famous in the world - the Ski Club of Great Britain. Exotic places like Val d'Is re and Courchevel had yet to be invented. Zermatt was a climbing village famous for the Matterhorn (conquered for the first time less than 40 years previously) but not for its skiing. In those days, to the British, skiing was little more than a slightly odd sport practised by English eccentrics. There were no ski lifts or resorts, but nevertheless the British pioneered Alpine skiing so that they could indulge their passion for a craze that was about to grip the world of Winter sports. Over the years, the Ski Club published an almanac, which became a document of fascinating, amusing and downright bizarre anecdotes of the Brits on the slopes as the sport went from being a minority diversion to the worldwide obsession it is today.

Snow Crazy: 115 Years of British Ski History

TSL Publications