Product Description

This brand new guide is guaranteed to help you find your perfect resort. It contains the most up-to-date information on each resort including the pistes, off-piste/backcountry, parks, nightlife, hotels and restaurants. The authors travelled round each of the best resorts in Europe last season to make sure that all the information is accurate and so that they could objectively compare the resorts.

Pat Sharples is a professional skier, head of the British Freeski Camps and Oakley Ski Team Manager. Vanessa Webb is a travel writer and photographer.

No passionate skier or snowboarder should be without a copy of this book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #347249 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-26
• Number of items: 20
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Synopsis
Ski and Snowboard: Off Piste, On Piste and Apres Piste. Why you should stock this book? A leaning towards extreme skiing means our criteria measures both off piste, on piste and back-country. It is a unique European resorts book for individual planners who are the fastest-growing part of the market. Pat and Vanessa are a very attractive couple and have enormous goodwill in the skiing world and media. It has a guaranteed TV and radio publicity and guaranteed ski world promotion for a beautiful-looking book. Why your customers will buy this book? The pictures and graphics stimulate the need-to-be-there feeling. The authors are photographers themselves but well in with the professionals too. The book is stunning. This is the only European guide to tell you everything you need to know about the snow, the pistes, off-piste, back-country and eating on the mountains. With details on how to get there, and how to get around the hotels, chalets and restaurants, it includes the apres-ski bar scene and a clubbing guide. It is a unique book by the most influential and knowledgeable people in the industry.

Customer Reviews

A chalet in the mountains !
I have had this book in my chalet since the beginning of the season on the coffee table and everyone who has read it has loved it..

given that it is the first time Pat and Vanessa have published it,I think it will get better and better..

The top 50 ski and snowboard resorts in europe
My friends and myself thought this was a great buy! It has really helped us decided on our resort for this winter. I have used other ski and snowdoard guides in the past and this is by far the best!
Why? This book has some amazing picture's and lets you know all about the latest hot equipment and top resort with loads of info you will not find anywhere eles.

The authors seem to know there stuff and also give information for the younger generation that alot of other guides do not.

This is the first travel guide ive read that lets you know about all the major competions in Europe.

If you are in your 20, 30 or 40,s and you love your snowboarding and skiing and need help finding your best resort, this book is for you!

The top 50 ski and snowboard resorts in europe
My friends and myself thought this book was a great buy! It really helped us decide on our resort for this winter.

Why? Its filled with loads of amazing pictures of some of the worlds best skiers and boarders which you dont find in many travel guides.

It has all the latest info for each resort they write about.

Lets you know about all the latest equipment.

This is the first snowboard and ski travel guide ive read that seems to have information for the younger generation. If your into your riding as much as me and need halp finding the best reort for you, then check this book out!