"I have no doubt that if this book is widely read and referred to it will save lives." Dave Wynne-Jones Eagle Ski Club

The off-piste is a wild and wonderful world where skiers, boarders and climbers come to practice their sport and enjoy the beauty and thrills of the mountains. But that beauty comes tinged with danger. Most people you meet off-piste have an intuitive understanding that they are entering a dangerous environment very different from the groomed, controlled and patrolled pistes of a ski resort. But few people appear to have a good sense of either the nature or of the extent...