Chapter I: Front Matter

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SKI-RUNS IN THE HIGH ALPS

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SKI-ING FOR BEGINNERS AND MOUNTAINEERS

By W. RICKMER RICKMERS

With 72 Full-page Plates and many Diagrams in the Text

_Crown 8vo, cloth, 4s. 6d. net. (Post free, 4s. 9d.)_

Opinions of the Press

“A fascinating book on the most delightful of Continental
winter sports. Not only is Mr. Rickmers a strenuous and
accomplished ski-runner himself, but he has had years of
experience as a teacher of the art, and his handy volume
embodies everything that it is essential for the novice to know
in order to become an efficient ski-runner in as short a time
as possible”--_T. P.’s Weekly._

“He is a teacher of vast experience, who has studied every
defect in style that a beginner can possibly fall into, and has
learned how to cure them all. If the novice with the aid of
this book studies his every posture and action, practising the
right and with pains correcting what he learns is wrong, he is
on the high road to becoming a first-class runner.”--_Scottish
Ski Club Magazine._

“Mr Rickmers has written a lucid book which, as regards
ski-ing, is cyclopædically exhaustive.”--_Illustrated Sporting
and Dramatic News._

“This book will be a great boon to those wishing to learn
the art of ski-ing. The illustrations are excellent and most
carefully chosen--in fact, the whole book from beginning to
end is full of useful knowledge, and is most interestingly
written. It will be enjoyed not only by the initiate, but by
the experienced ski-runner.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._

LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN

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Frontispiece.]

SKI-RUNS IN THE HIGH ALPS

by

F. F. ROGET, S.A.C.

Honorary Member of the Alpine Ski Club Honorary Member of the Association of British Members of the Swiss Alpine Club

With 25 Illustrations by L. M. Crisp And 6 Maps

T. Fisher Unwin London: Adelphi Terrace Leipsic: Inselstrasse 20 1913

(All rights reserved.)

TO
MY DAUGHTER
ISMAY
HOPING SHE MAY NOT GO FORTH
AND DO LIKEWISE