For the Love of Skiing: A Visual History

by Alan K. Engen

Through this text, the reader can relive the days when ski jumps were constructed of rickety wooden frames, when loop bindings strapped around the skier's boots held his fate, and when records were... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879058676
• ISBN13: 9780879058678
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.9" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

If you love Alta, buy this book.

This book will appeal to people that know and love Alta, Utah or are interested in the history of skiing in the Western US. It primarily chronicles the life of Alf Engen, and therefore, chronicles the history of Alta and and an important part of skiing in the west. Engen was the inventor of modern powder skiing and richly deserves the honor of this book.