In Search of Skiing

by Warren Miller, Warren Miller (Illustrator)

Overview

Everyone knows most things have a beginning, a middle and an end. Books do. Stories do. Ski lifts do. Ski runs do. Movies do. This book doesn't. It definitely has no end. Rather, it is full of short stories you might tell or listen to during a chairlift ride. But, some ski lift rides take a couple of minutes, others take a lifetime. So, too, do some of these stories. They are, for the most part, my own true experiences. A few, of course, have been clouded with age. Others are my best recollections of something told to me by someone on a ski lift ride somewhere. Or did I hear it in that restaurant at the bottom of a lift in Zermatt? Perhaps it was Portillo? Maybe it was in Shiga Heights, Japan?Just like on television, though, the characters and locations in the stories have been altered to protect anyone who might need protection. This book can't teach you how to make better turns on a pair of skis because that is measured by the width of your smile. It won't tell you where to go skiing, either. It is a collection of stories, anecdotes, ideas, written by a guy, a person, a man, a skier, a filmmaker, who has spent most of his life in the fall line.This book I have written and the almost four hundred movies I have produced show this different, lurching side of life. Sure, I show the "Isn't life great side," but I interrupt my story telling with a lot of life's lurches. The ski school director falling in front of the class, your new Christmas skis blowing off the roof of the car in the middle of the night. I guess I'm one of the vast army of lurchers with an optimistic attitude because I believe every day is a little better than the day before.Read In Search of Skiing and you can lurch with me through the many pages. That is unless the printer left some out. Which he probably did, which is why we sell the book so cheap.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013397415
Publisher:	Warren Miller Company
Publication date:	09/22/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	190
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Warren Miller is an American ski and snowboarding filmmaker. He is the founder of Warren Miller Films and produced, directed and narrated his films until 1988. His credits include over 750 sports films, several books and hundreds of published non-fiction stories. His annual films on skiing and other outdoor sports are renowned for their stunning photography, witty narrative humor, and the impressive talents of athletes. He has received wide acclaim for his promotion of the sport of modern skiing through his films spanning over 60 years and is an iconic figure in action sports filmmaking.Warren was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and as a young man he took up the hobbies of skiing, surfing, and photography. At the age of 18, with the U.S. ten months into World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served in the South Pacific. Upon his discharge from the Navy in 1946 he bought his first 8mm movie camera. He and a friend moved to Sun Valley, Idaho where they camped in the parking lot of the Sun Valley ski resort, living out of a teardrop trailer and earning money as ski instructors. In their free time, they would film each other skiing to critique and improve their ski techniques. During the summers they shifted to the California coast where they filmed each other surfing.Warren would often show his skiing and surfing films to friends, making jokes about their exploits throughout the showing of the film. When he began to receive invitations to show and narrate his films at parties, it occurred to him that he could turn this hobby into a business. In 1949, Miller founded Warren Miller Films and began a long-standing tradition of producing one feature-length ski film per year. He rented out halls and theaters, usually with borrowed money, and charged admission to his shows. He booked show halls near ski resorts so that he could film the next year's footage during the day, and show the current film in the evening. Before long he was showing his films in 130 cities a year.Miller continued to head the company both creatively and executively until the late 1980s when he sold the company. The company still produces a new film every year, however Miller himself has not been actively involved since 2004.Warren Miller currently resides with his wife, Laurie, on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands north of Seattle, Washington. Through Warren Miller Company and the Warren Miller Freedom Foundation, he remains an active writer, artist, philanthropist, and luminary.