Deep Powder and Steep Rock: The Life of Mountain Guide Hans Gmoser - Softcover

Scott, Chic

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1771601124 ISBN 13: 9781771601122

Verlag: Rocky Mountain Books, 2015

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Biography of Hans Gmoser, a central figure in Canadian mountain culture whose work helped shape modern heli-skiing, guiding and backcountry adventure.

Hans Gmoser is best known internationally for his role in the development of heli-skiing, but his life in the mountains extended far beyond one innovation. He was a rock climber, expedition leader, mountain guide, filmmaker and organizer whose projects helped build the culture and institutions of modern mountain recreation in western Canada.

Chic Scott’s Deep Powder and Steep Rock draws extensively on Gmoser’s own diaries, expedition journals, film commentaries and personal correspondence. Those sources allow the biography to follow both the public achievements and the working habits, ambitions and relationships behind them.

The book places Gmoser within the history of the Canadian Rockies and the broader development of skiing and mountaineering in North America. It is a portrait of an energetic and influential mountain figure, told through the documentary record he left behind and the communities he helped create.

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Chic Scott is a household name in international and Canadian mountaineering circles. One of Canada’s most celebrated mountain literature authors and adventurers, he is the author of several award-winning mountaineering history books, including Pushing the Limits: The Story of Canadian Mountaineering, Powder Pioneers: Ski Stories from the Canadian Rockies and Columbia Mountains and Deep Powder and Steep Rock: The Life of Mountain Guide Hans Gmoser. As well, his bestselling guidebooks Summits and Icefields 1: Alpine Ski Tours in the Canadian Rockies, Summits and Icefields 2: Alpine Ski Tours in the Columbia Mountains – Revised & Updated, and Ski Trails in the Canadian Rockies – 5th Edition are fundamental resources in any backcountry skier’s library. Chic lives in Banff, Alberta.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rocky Mountain Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1771601124
• ISBN 13: 9781771601122
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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