"I still remember all the questions I had when I first started skiing full-time. Knowing what I know now, this is the book I wish I'd had back then." Jimmy Odén
In 2005, Swedish mountain guide and ex-skibum Jimmy Oden created an alpine and freeride textbook compared to which all classic textbooks look the same: dull, boring, poorly illustrated, but thoroughly competent. Jimmy has proven that things can be done differently: his book, first published in English in 2005, caused a sensation and won a design award for its unusual layout. Freeskiing (the title of the original) consistently crosses the usual boundaries between freeriding, ski mountaineering and alpinism. The book is therefore not only a textbook for freeriders and ski mountaineers, but also a never-ending source of inspiration to develop as a winter sports enthusiast and person in the mountains. Despite its textbook character, the book is an emphatic homage to our sport. The PG crew has now adapted this unusual freeride textbook into a German-language and completely revised version: PowderGuide Free Ski is the title of the German-language version.
The author - Jimmy Odén
Following his love of the high mountains, Jimmy Odén moved from Sweden to Verbier, where the Alps are the highest and the freeride runs are the longest. His twenty years of experience, initially as a penniless ski bum, later as a professional skier and mountain guide in Verbier and Chamonix and today as an instructor in the Swedish Mountain Guide Association, form the basis of this book. In the anecdote-rich introductions to each chapter, Jimmy talks about his early years as a full-time skier: these are open, impressively honest accounts of his experiences that show just how close happiness and suffering are in the mountains.
Twelve chapters - or what you should know and be able to do in the mountains
In 12 chapters, the techniques, knowledge and skills that are crucial for freeriders and tourers are explained in detail:
Mountain sense
Weather
Snow and avalanche awareness
Risk management
Skiing off-piste
First aid
Avalanche rescue
Orientation and tour planning
Ski mountaineering
Ski touring
Skiing on glaciers
Steep descents
Preview - Chapter 001: Moutain knowledge
Infos about the book
Free Ski - A jam-packed book with all the Moutain knowledge you can't really learn from a book.
Author: Jimmy Odén
Translated by Lea Hartl
Editor of the German-language edition: PowderGuide - Knut Pohl, Tobias Kurzeder
416 pages
400 graphics and sketches, 92 full-page photos
Format: 25 x 20 cm
Pictorial quality
Price: 34.90 euros
Preview - Chapter 010: Skiing on glaciers
PowderGuide Free Ski is available now!The book can now be ordered directly from the publisher. If you order now, the Powder Man is guaranteed to put the book on your gift table by Christmas.
