Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing - Roland Huntford - Google Books

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Roland Huntford's brilliant history begins 20,000 years ago in the last ice age on the icy tundra of an unformed earth. Man is a travelling animal, and on these icy slopes skiing began as a means of survival.That it has developed into the leisure and…