In his stunning first book, veteran ski writer Porter Fox captures the 8,000-year-old sport of skiing, the miracle of snow and the shocking truth of how climate change could wipe out both in the next 75 years. The narrative follows the unlikely rise of skiing from prehistoric Norwegian hunters to nobility in the Alps in the 1800s to present-day freeriders on the vaunted slopes of the Rocky Mountains. On his global tour of the most celebrated mountains in the Northern Hemisphere?from Washington?s Cascade Range to the European Alps?Fox talks to alpinists about the allure and mysticism of the sport and to scientists about climate change and its effect on snow?ultimately finding a story that is far larger than the demise of skiing.