Downhill Slide

Why the Corporate Ski Industry is Bad for Skiing, Ski Towns and the Environment

Hal Clifford (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

299 Seiten

2002
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-1-57805-071-0 (ISBN)

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In this impassioned expose, lifelong skier Hal Clifford reveals how publicly traded corporations gained control of America's most popular winter sport during the 1990s, and how they are gutting ski towns, the natural environment, and skiing itself in a largely futile search for short-term profits. Clifford suggests an alternative to this bleak picture in the return-to-the-roots movement that is now beginning to find its voice in American ski towns from Mammoth Lakes, California, to Stowe, Vermont. He relates the stories of creative business people who are shifting control of the ski business back to the communities that host it. Hard-hitting and carefully researched, Downhill Slide is indispensable reading for anyone who lives in, visits, or cares about what is happening to America's alpine communities.

Hal Clifford is the author of The Falling Season: Inside the Life and Death Drama of Aspen's Mountain Rescue Team, winner of the Colorado Council for the Arts Prize for Best Non-Fiction, and Highroad Guide to the Colorado Mountains. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Business Week, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, and Orion. A former editor of the Aspen Daily News and SKI Magazine, Clifford currently makes his home in Telluride, Colorado.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2002
Reihe/Serie	Sierra Club Books Publication
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	143 x 222 mm
Gewicht	485 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ski- / Wintersport
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	1-57805-071-5 / 1578050715
ISBN-13	978-1-57805-071-0 / 9781578050710
Zustand	Neuware