White Planet

Writer and adventurer Leslie Anthony has spent his life on two planks, racing down hills, searching for the next perfect ride. His real baptism, however, began in the early nineties when Alaska emerged as the ski world's Next Big Thing. Steep faces and vast tracks of powder snow, were captured on film and beamed to audiences around the world. The result was a freeskiing revolution.

With insight and humor, White Planet, traces an arc through the new ski culture, in a rock 'n' roll adventure that follows a diaspora to far-flung corners of the globe. Along the way, Anthony introduces many of the daredevils, visionaries and entrepreneurs who are bringing the sport to such unexpected places as Mexico, China, Lebanon and India.

Autorentext

Leslie Anthony was bitten by the ski bug at the age of ten and has never looked back. Although he holds a PhD in zoology from the University of Toronto, was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University's Redpath Museum, and wrote Snakebit: Confessions of a Herpetologist, skiing has remained his first love. An avid adventurer, Anthony has won awards for both his poetry and is acclaimed for his work in outdoor, action sport, and general-interest magazines such as Skier, explore, and Powder, on whose masthead he's appeared for 18 years. His ski writing has been published in seven languages in twelve countries. He lives in Whistler, B.C.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments vii
Prologue: Legend 1

A Gathering Storm
1 | Smoke and Mirrors 7
2 | A Bum's Rush 24
3 | Into the Deep 41
4 | The Big Empty 51

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
5 | The Motherland 73
6 | A Scattering in a Cold Wind 96
7 | A Scattering in a Warm Wind 120
8 | Last Salami, Last Pilgrim 145

The Revolution May Be Televised After All
9 | Icecapades 163
10 | Just Say Cheese 176
11 | X Marks the Spot 192
12 | Just Shoot Me 211

Another Gathering Storm
13 | A Death in the Family 227
14 | Invasion of the Powder Snatchers 238
15 | Space, the Final Frontier 253

Epilogue: Legend 287