For the Love of Skiing: A Visual History of Skiing

by Alan K. Engen

More than 150 vintage photographs illustrate the history of U.S. ski sports, detailing the experiences of pioneers such as former Olympic ski coach Alf Engen. For the Love of Skiing chronicles the wildest early ski adventures from those barnstormer days "when men were men, and most were crazy as hell."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586851063
• ISBN13: 9781586851064
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 10.7"

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.