White Planet

Leslie Anthony was bitten by the ski bug at the age of ten and has never looked back. Although he holds a PhD in zoology from the University of Toronto, was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University's Redpath Museum, and wrote Snakebit: Confessions of a Herpetologist, skiing has remained his first love. An avid adventurer, Anthony has won awards for both his poetry and is acclaimed for his work in outdoor, action sport, and general-interest magazines such as Skier, explore, and Powder, on whose masthead he's appeared for 18 years. His ski writing has been published in seven languages in twelve countries. He lives in Whistler, B.C.

Acknowledgments vii Prologue: Legend 1 A Gathering Storm 1 | Smoke and Mirrors 7 2 | A Bum's Rush 24 3 | Into the Deep 41 4 | The Big Empty 51 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 5 | The Motherland 73 6 | A Scattering in a Cold Wind 96 7 | A Scattering in a Warm Wind 120 8 | Last Salami, Last Pilgrim 145 The Revolution May Be Televised After All 9 | Icecapades 163 10 | Just Say Cheese 176 11 | X Marks the Spot 192 12 | Just Shoot Me 211 Another Gathering Storm 13 | A Death in the Family 227 14 | Invasion of the Powder Snatchers 238 15 | Space, the Final Frontier 253 Epilogue: Legend 287