Ski-running

The manual offers practical instruction for novice and improving skiers, combining technique basics and coaching advice with chapters on history, clothing and equipment care, choice of centres and seasonal planning, maps and navigation, and safety topics such as avalanches and accidents. It emphasizes early supervised practice on nursery slopes, the value of federated tests and badges to raise standards, and pragmatic recommendations for rail access and local guides. Appendices set out regulations for British tests, and the tone balances technical detail—waxing, skins, turns—with encouragement to use skis to reach remote mountain scenery.