Books about skiing, including books on how to ski, skiing fitness, skiing tips, and the history of skiing.
Double Black - A Ski Diva Mystery by Wendy Clinch (TheSkiDiva.com) tells the tale of post grad Boston girl, Stacey Curtis, who's dreams of wedded bliss on Beacon Hill are turned upside down when she finds her fiance in bed with a mutual friend. This life shattering event sends Stacey rebounding into the bosom of her first love - the mountains of Vermont ski country.
On March 31, 1982, after four solid days of snow piling up at a record rate at Alpine Meadows ski resort in California, the overloaded slopes avalanched. Somewhere on the mountain, a snowflake akin to the straw on the camel's back loosed millions of tons of snow that blew apart concrete and metal buildings, tossed around machinery and vehicles like toys, killed seven people and buried one alive.
Harald Harb's Anyone Can Be An Expert Skier 2 - Powder, Bumps and Carving is an excellent book for intermediate level skiers who are seriously interested in attaining the next level.
John Clendenin, two-time World Freestyle Champion, has put a lot of research into the physics of skiing and into the reasons great skier look so effortlessly in command.
If you want to get an honest sense about the personality of a major ski resort in North America pick up a copy of Charlie Leocha's Ski Snowboard America 2009.
Charlie Leocha's book Ski Snowboard Europe, now in it's 16th edition, takes the guess work out of finding a European resort or village that fits your fancy, your skiing and your budget.
The Edge of Never is a true adventure tale told on many levels. It tells the story of author and former pro skier Bill Kerig's frustrating efforts to develop and market a film about the world of extreme skiing. It tells the story of the death of Trevor Petersen, one of the best of the elite band of ski mountaineers, who died alone in an avalanche in the mountains above Chamonix, France.
Martin Heckelman’s goal in publishing the Revised Edition of The New Guide to Skiing is "to help you reach a level of competence that enables you to safely ski every type of snow and slope that you may encounter." To a large extent, Heckelman’s sequential photos and exercises do cover the gamut of conditions and terrain most skiers will encounter.
In The Story of Modern Skiing John Fry weaves a colorful history of the rise in skiing popularity from the individual mom-and pop post-WWII ski areas to the mega resort conglamorates of today - and all the environmental consequences along the way.
