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Thirty Years in a White Haze

Dan Egan's Story of Worldwide Adventure 
and the Evolution of Extreme Skiing

Dan Egan Eric Wilbur Kimberley Kay

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English
Degan Media Inc.
05 October 2021
"""Sheltered in a snow cave on Mount Elbrus in 1990, I stared into the mouth of a storm on the tallest peak on the European continent, a merciless mountain that claims more lives per year than Everest. When I emerged from the white haze of that storm alive, after so many had perished, I had no idea how this event would impact the next 30 years of my life.

""My brother John and I-known as the Egan Brothers-could be seen on the Discovery Channel, ESPN, and were featured in twelve Warren Miller Ski Films during the 1980s and 1990s. We found our place in history as storytellers and East Coast renegades of skiing, and were inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2017.

""Thirty Years in a White Haze is a tale of trials, success, and loss told through worldwide adventure and the evolution of extreme skiing as thirty years of haze dissipates to clarity.""

-Dan Egan"

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Illustrated by:   Kimberley Kay
Imprint:   Degan Media Inc.
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 33mm
Weight:   925g
ISBN:   9781736492741
ISBN 10:   1736492748
Pages:   420
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Extreme skiing pioneer Dan Egan has appeared in fourteen Warren Miller films, and is known for skiing the most remote regions of the world. In 2001, Powder Magazine named him one of the most influential skiers of our time. Egan is an award-winning video producer specializing in action sports and sailing. As a journalist, he has covered three Olympics and is a sought-after motivational speaker. He has authored two other books, All-Terrain Skiing: Body Mechanics and Balance from Powder to Ice, and Courage to Persevere: The Triumph Over Tragedy of Bill Fallon, co-authored with Bill Fallon. In the winter he can be found at Waterville Valley, New Hampshire; Big Sky, Montana; and Val d'Isère, France. Check out www.skiclinics.com for his schedule. Egan was inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame, along with his brother John, in 2017. For more information about Dan Egan: www.Dan-Egan.com. Eric Wilbur is a journalist who has been covering the New England sports, travel, and skiing scenes for nearly three decades. His written work has appeared in The Boston Globe, New England Ski Journal, Boston.com, Boston Metro, and various other publications. He fell in love with skiing at an early age, a dedication to the sport that only increased upon moving to Vermont during his college years. He lives with his wife and three children in the Boston area. This is his first book. Kimberley has over forty years of ski experience including racing, teaching, and heli-skiing, as well as ski holiday promotion during a 20-year career in travel PR.Kim learned to ski age 5 at the dry slope at Ski Rossendale, Lancashire, and in Mayrhofen, Austria.Now based in Yorkshire, Kim creates art and illustration in watercolour paints, cut paper and textiles. under the brand of Inspire by Kim, further information can be found at www.inspirebykim.comKim's ski illustrations are intended to resonate with avid skiers and attract new people to the sport by demonstrating the exhilaration and joy of downhill skiing.In late 2020 Kim created illustrations for Dan Egan and Eric Wilbur's extreme skiing book 30 Years In A White Haze.

Reviews for Thirty Years in a White Haze: Dan Egan's Story of Worldwide Adventure 
and the Evolution of Extreme Skiing

"""Thirty Years in a White Haze is a new benchmark in the sports literature library... Egan's blunt, hard-won wisdom about the highs, lows, and sometimes personal costs of following your dreams provides a level of insight and humanity seldom found in the heights of the alpine world. This is a must-read account of a sport and a storied skier's intertwined history."" - Peter Kray, Author of American Snow and The God of Skiing ""Rarely if ever has the ski bum life been told as authentically and honestly as in Thirty Years in a White Haze. Written with remarkable candor and introspection, the book is a chronicle of his nearly primal pursuit of skiing. From the tension of sibling rivalry to the realities of an athlete getting older, Dan Egan and Eric Wilbur have penned a fearless personal and cultural history of one of the most dynamic eras in skiing. Not only is it a must-read for fans of the sport-especially those whose jackets are patched with duct tape-it's a page-turning confessional of a career spent on multiple edges."" - Steve Casimiro, former Editor of Powder Magazine and Founder of Adventure Journal ""Dazzling! A fascinating read by one of the world's gutsiest adventurers... It's hard to tell what Dan Egan is better at-exploring the world's most fascinating and dangerous places or putting into words what his adventures mean to him and to the rest of us."" - Patrick Creadon, Award-Winning Filmmaker and Director of SKI BUM: The Warren Miller Story ""You know when you read something and have no doubt that the person writing it was there for it all... That is this book, for sure. Thirty Years in a White Haze is truly authentic. You can tell Dan lived, breathed, and loved extreme skiing his entire career, and put his life on the line time after time, and lived to tell the story... This book is the raw, truthful, and candid accounts he experienced as a skier. Dan is a true storyteller."" - Justin Koski, Executive Director of the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame ""Dan Egan, alongside his brother John, was a big, famous deal in the world of skiing for several decades. One of THE most colorful characters in an already colorful industry, this book about his spectacular career and life is not to be missed. Even if you don't ski, to read about a man who lived life to his fullest, is an inspiration to help you also live your life to the fullest. Not only that, much like you hope an adventure story to be, Thirty Years in a White Haze is one hell of a page-turner."" - Kristen Ulmer, former Best-in-the-World Pro Skier, and Author of The Art of Fear ""Since emerging as a pioneer of skiing in the 1980s, Dan Egan has been central to the sport's colorful, ever-evolving history. With Thirty Years in a White Haze, Egan and Wilbur have laid a graceful set of tracks through this landscape, taking readers to the icy edge of the wilderness and back."" - Nathaniel Vinton, Author of The Fall Line: America's Rise to Ski Racing's Summit"


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