Snowlines: In the Tracks of the Great Ski Race Across the Alps

A sweeping history of ski mountaineering and the author's quest to complete its most challenging race: the Patrouille des Glaciers in the Alps

God of skis, protect us.

Simon Akam fell in love with ski mountaineering as a teenager and was happiest above the snowline-until a brush with disaster in the Caucasus mountains sent him into a prolonged mental collapse. The only way to regain control of his anxious, spiraling mind, he decided, was to return to the mountains and, this time, to master th...