White Heat is a thrillingly written exploration of the extreme skiing life, the cult of speed, danger, and adventure that draws countless people to risk everything in the pursuit of high-altitude exhilaration.
This book is all about adventure, about riding on the edge of danger and surviving it, about the thrill and focus of competition, and the thrill of rescue. It's a book of people, some quirky, some strange, some just plain crazy, but all of them drawn to the extreme skiing life.