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- Passion for Skiing is a book that was published in 2010 about the contributions of people from Hanover, New Hampshire and Dartmouth College to winter activities, particularly the sport of downhill skiing. The book highlights the history of skiing from 1910 to the current era. It was written by Dartmouth alumnus Stephen L. Waterhouse (Dartmouth College Class of 1965, Tuck Business School Class of 1967), a native of Sanford, Maine and part-time Vail, Colorado resident, with the help of other alumni and ski historians. The entire 426-page book, with its more than 50 contributing authors scattered across the US and abroad, was edited solely via email by Nick Stevens (Class of 1958), a former Dartmouth ski instructor, on his home computer in Maryland, and printed by Whitman Communications of Lebanon, New Hampshire. The Dartmouth College impact on skiing continues. The college maintains its own ski area, the Dartmouth Skiway, a 100-acre (0.40 km2) skiing facility located over two mountains near the Hanover campus in Lyme Center, New Hampshire, that serves as the winter practice grounds for the nationally dominant Dartmouth ski team. Along with the Middlebury College Snow Bowl, the Dartmouth Skiway is one of two remaining college-owned ski areas in the eastern United States. Dartmouth and Hanover have been home to numerous members of the . Dartmouth and Hanover-connected Winter Olympians won five medals in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the equivalent of 18th place on the country list. 12 Dartmouth alumni competed in Sochi. Three won medals: Gillian Apps (Dartmouth Class of 2006) won gold in women's hockey; Andrew Weibrecht (Dartmouth Class of 2009) won silver in men's super G alpine skiing; and Hannah Kearney (Dartmouth Class of 2015) won bronze in freestyle moguls skiing. All three had won medals in prior Olympics. Two other athletes with Dartmouth/Hanover connections won medals: Mikaela Shiffrin, a former Hanover, New Hampshire resident and daughter of Dartmouth alumnus Jeff Shiffrin (Dartmouth Class of 1976), won gold in the women's Olympic slalom; and Gus Kenworthy, son of Dartmouth alumnus Peter Kenworthy (Dartmouth Class of 1977), won silver in the inaugural slopestyle skiing event. Waterhouse was assisted in writing the book by many contemporary historians of skiing such as Morten Lund, John Fry, Elisabeth Hussey and John Allen. The 440-page book covers founders of ski areas; founders of ski retail shops and the developers of ski resort residential and commercial buildings; initiators of extreme skiing like Bill Briggs (Dartmouth Class of 1954); creators of ski clothing, equipment and grooming technology; and some of the greatest ski racers at college, national and Olympic levels. It also discusses the nurses, doctors and ski patrollers who operate the medical facilities in ski communities. It also includes makers of ski movies and the founders of ski magazines. The book has a foreword by two members of the National Ski Hall of Fame: Warren Miller, the legendary maker of ski movies, and Chick Igaya (Dartmouth Class of 1957), a three-time Olympic skier for Japan (a silver medalist in 1956 and the holder of the most NCAA championships). The appendix of the book has lists of people from Dartmouth who were ski racing champions, National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame members and those who made significant contributions to the sport like Dick Durrance (Dartmouth Class of 1939) and John Litchfield (Dartmouth Class of 1939). Stephen Waterhouse and the book were given an Ullr Award in 2011 by the International Ski History Association at its annual conference with the National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame, held in Sun Valley, April 2011 in honor of its 75th anniversary. The book was made into the 2013 documentary film Passion for Snow. (en)
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- Passion for Skiing is a book that was published in 2010 about the contributions of people from Hanover, New Hampshire and Dartmouth College to winter activities, particularly the sport of downhill skiing. The book highlights the history of skiing from 1910 to the current era. It was written by Dartmouth alumnus Stephen L. Waterhouse (Dartmouth College Class of 1965, Tuck Business School Class of 1967), a native of Sanford, Maine and part-time Vail, Colorado resident, with the help of other alumni and ski historians. The entire 426-page book, with its more than 50 contributing authors scattered across the US and abroad, was edited solely via email by Nick Stevens (Class of 1958), a former Dartmouth ski instructor, on his home computer in Maryland, and printed by Whitman Communications of Le (en)
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