Nathaniel Vinton > Quotes

“He was simply undeveloped compared to teammates who had grown up in the American West, linking 60 mph carved turns at Sun Valley or Crystal Mountain.”
― Nathaniel Vinton, The Fall Line: America's Rise to Ski Racing's Summit

“A startling discovery awaits an American on his or her first trip into the Alps. Switching trains or filling up on diesel in some town at the junction of two rivers, one inevitably looks up to encounter a single mountain facade rising as much as 10,000 feet from the valley floor. A diversity of climates and landscapes is on vertical display: forests, vineyards, pastures, rocky talus slopes, glaciers—stacked one upon another on a steep face. The”
― Nathaniel Vinton, The Fall Line: America's Rise to Ski Racing's Summit