White Planet: A Mad Dash through Modern Global Ski Culture

by Leslie Anthony

Writer and adventurer Leslie Anthony has spent his life on two planks, racing down hills, searching for the next perfect ride. His real baptism, however, began in the early nineties when Alaska emerged as the ski world’s Next Big Thing. Steep faces and vast tracks of powder snow, were captured on film and beamed to audiences around the world. The result was a freeskiing revolution.

With insight and humor, White Planet, traces an arc through the new ski culture, in a rock ‘n’ roll adventure that follows a diaspora to far-flung corners of the globe. Along the way, Anthony introduces many of the daredevils, visionaries and entrepreneurs who are bringing the sport to such unexpected places as Mexico, China, Lebanon and India.

Genres: Nonfiction, Adventure, Sports

304 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 2010

Reviews

[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

White Planet chronicles 30 years of visiting the world's most improbable snowy places and the two-plank adventurers that long to explore them. The author uses generous doses of trademark humour and occasional poetics to describe the lifelong passions of skiers and their hunt for the untouched terrain of distant lands. The characters he meets in this quest include both the unsung and superheros of the ski world, the ones who've shaped it and, in some instances, been tragically lost to it. Ski bums, pros and weekend warriors alike will find this book insightful and provocative, informative and hilarious. Reading White Planet is the perfect pastime while waiting for real powder to arrive!

[Josh · Rating 3 out of 5]

not a bad read. definitely a great look at all the different options for skiing around the world. kiwiland, o canada, india, switzerland, spain, italy, estados unidos and all over the white planet.

leslie anthony recounts his adventures in skiing from his tiny hill in rural ontario to a life-long quest to discover the greatest powder in the world as a ski-writer / editor.

it just makes you crave the mountains...

[Ellen]

I haven't read this book, yet, and being new to this website, I have some difficulties navigating through it and getting "things" where I want them to be or more importantly deleting or editing an an error. Sorry

[Alexandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cool book with some fun anecdotes, but if your life isn't all about skiing then the pages between each adventure might seem a bit dry.