Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing

Contents......Page 8
Maps and Illustrations......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Note......Page 16
1 Skiing Necesse Est......Page 20
2 Ski Tracks in the Milky Way......Page 22
3 The Earliest Written Sources......Page 34
4 Old Norse Sagas and the Finnish National Epic: Kalevala......Page 42
5 The First Printed Sources......Page 52
6 Norway – The Cradle of Skiing as a Sport......Page 64
7 The Influence of Rousseau......Page 72
8 The Ski in Foreign Literature......Page 80
9 Evolution of Skiing as a Sport......Page 84
10 The Men of Telemark......Page 98
11 Development of Technique and Equipment......Page 114
12 The First Nordic Marathon......Page 124
13 The Conquest of the Mountain World......Page 136
14 Fridtjof Nansen and the first crossing of Greenland......Page 146
15 The Nordic Olympia......Page 160
16 The Waisted Telemark Ski......Page 168
17 The Rise of Ski Touring and the Misadventures of Roald Amundsen......Page 174
18 As Important as the Plays of Ibsen......Page 186
19 The Spread of Skiing on the Continent......Page 196
20 Norwegians bring Skiing to Austria-Hungary and Montenegro......Page 206
21 Skiing Comes to Switzerland......Page 220
22 Davos: The cradle of the Ski Resort......Page 230
23 The English Skiing at Davos......Page 240
24 Mathias Zdarsky......Page 250
25 St Moritz......Page 260
26 Skiing in France......Page 268
27 Polar Exploration......Page 284
28 The Inventions that Founded Modern Skiing......Page 302
29 The New World......Page 316
30 The Study of Snow Structure......Page 326
31 The First Winter Olympics at Chamonix......Page 338
32 Mass Winter Tourism......Page 350
33 The International Recognition of Downhill Skiing......Page 358
34 Skiing Mechanized and Politicized......Page 366
35 Military Skiing......Page 376
36 Skiing Since 1945......Page 394
Notes......Page 410
Bibliography......Page 420
B......Page 448
D......Page 449
H......Page 450
N......Page 451
S......Page 452
T......Page 454
Z......Page 455