Aiming High: The Life of Ski and Travel Pioneer Erna Low

by Mark Frary

'Aiming High' is the biography of Erna Low, born in Vienna in 1909, who was instrumental in starting what has become a multimillion pound industry: the ski holiday business.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Mark Frary is a writer on science and technology and graduated from University College London with a first class degree in astronomy and physics. He has carried out research into spacecraft at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in Surrey and nuclear physics on the large electron-positron collider at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland.

His work appears regularly in the London Times and other newspapers and magazines. He is the co-author of Codebreaker: the Secret History of Communications, Future Proof, and the author of Freaky Science and Math in your Pocket.