Round The World in 50 Slopes by Patrick Thorne

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Round The World in 50 Slopes by Patrick Thorne

The brand new e-book from veteran snow journey author Patrick Thorne – Round The World in 50 Slopes – takes skiers on a journey between ski runs positioned in 30 international locations throughout six continents. Available for purchase in bookstores and on-line, every of the 50 featured slopes features a reality field and a hand-drawn map which marks every run’s location.

Thorne’s final e-book – Powder: The Best Ski Runs on the Planet – topped Amazon’s ski-books best-seller listing for greater than six years. For his new title, he has taken a distinct method in selecting his 50 runs. “There are many lists on-line protecting the world’s steepest, most difficult runs and it’s usually the same old suspects, however I’m extra fascinated about runs which have a narrative to them, an added dimension past simply being nice runs,” he stated. “In brief, I needed to compile all of the wonderful tales I’ve been gathering over the previous 4 a long time.”

The e-book will take readers to the world’s most northerly and southerly ski areas, to slopes skiable 12 months a 12 months, or on the one slope for 1000’s of miles in southern Africa, down a volcano within the Andes or beneath the exceptional northern lights. There are slopes linked to James Bond, Franz Klammer, St Patrick, The Beatles, Santa Claus, Jesus Christ, Emperor Hadrian, Kim Jong-un, Rely Dracula and even the Greek god Zeus. One run follows the road under the flight of a witch and one other a route as soon as standard with smugglers.

Round The World in 50 Slopes by Patrick Thorne

Though having well-known runs isn’t a precedence, the e-book does comprise the steepest and longest runs, together with a number of legendary World Cup and Olympic downhill programs. Among the runs are necessary within the historical past of snow sports activities, marking key factors within the evolution of lots of the world’s nice ski areas, together with Mammoth Mountain, St Moritz and the Colorado run the place (arguably) the primary snowboarding competitors happened.

Extra critical topics raised embrace the event of ski areas to reverse rural depopulation, the battle by indigenous tribes to maintain management of their ancestral lands (a number of opting to run their very own ski areas), the connections between totally different religions and ski resorts, how former mining communities reinvented themselves due to “white gold”, the struggle for homosexual rights, a ski space recovered from the Taliban, how some ski areas developed due to the expansion of rail networks, and even ski areas that developed due to mountain warfare coaching.

The local weather emergency is one other topic that Thorne, who additionally runs SaveOurSnow.com, and different skiers have witnessed first-hand. One well-known run graphically illustrates the affect of melting glaciers. However then lots of the runs are simply easy enjoyable with themes like cheese, love and Christmas.

“The late nice ski filmmaker Warren Miller acquired it spot on when he stated his favorite ski run was his subsequent ski run,” Thorne stated. “It doesn’t matter if it’s the longest or the steepest, in case you’re an amazing skier or a novice, as long as you’re loving your life within the snow.”  

Round The World in 50 Slopes is a 246-page hardback e-book printed by Wildfire Books priced at £16.99 and out there now in bookshops and on-line. The Kindle version is £8.99. 

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