The Fall Line: How American Ski Racers Conquered a Sport on the Edge

by Nathaniel Vinton

Book Overview

Harnessing nature's most powerful forces, elite downhillers descend icy, rugged slopes at speeds cresting 90 miles per hour. For decades, American skiers struggled to match their European counterparts, and until this century the US Ski Team could not claim a lasting foothold on the roof of the Alps, where the sport's legends are born.

Then came a fledgling class of American racers that disrupted the Alpine racing world order. Led by Bode...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393244776
• ISBN13: 9780393244779
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 10.4"