Those of us who've been around the mountains for a year or two will likely know of the "Where to Ski" and "Where to Ski and Snowboard" guides, created by Chris Gill and Dave Watts.
The books were the go-to references for anyone planning a ski trip, in pre-Internet days. They remained relevant well into the digital age with their comprehensive coverage of places to ski.
Chris Gill wrote:I've been putting off the job of writing this bulletin for months – arguably for a year, given the time that has elapsed since I was last in touch. But the time has come. With regret, I am winding up the Where to Ski business.
It's 43 years since I started planning the first edition of the Good Skiing Guide. I edited seven editions of that ground-breaking book before I fell out with the publishers and, in partnership with Dave Watts, started up Where to Ski, subsequently Where to Ski and Snowboard. The Good Skiing Guide and other rivals fell by the wayside but Watts and I plugged away from 1994 to 2015, when we finally came to the realisation that spending our summers revising a 700-page annual guide was too much like hard work.
To read the full announcement from Chris click here
If you don't have the latest (and last) copies of Where to Ski in Austria, France and Italy (three separate books), then now is the time, as Chris is selling off the remaining stock at the bargain price of £1.99 (postage adds another £6, so you might as well get all three... ).
The online shop is at https://www.editors.co.uk/shop