Some Stories by Yvon Chouinard

Author:Yvon Chouinard
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781938340826
Publisher: Patagonia
Published: 2019-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

… even the two best ski instructors in the world couldn’t get me down that mountain without a hundred crashes and head-plants.

In the summer of 1984 I went off a drop in my kayak upside down and landed on my head in a hard place, which resulted in a weird compression scoliosis thing in my back. Then, in September, after forty-five years of blacksmithing, tennis, fly fishing, big-wall nailing, ice climbing, and other forms of self-abuse, my right elbow crapped out and had to be operated on. By late October I had learned to cast with my left arm but it was obvious that the only dynamic sport I would do that winter was skiing. So, this was the year I was really going to learn to ski like I’d always wanted.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.