After a varied career in Fleet Street, Arnie Wilson spent 15 years in television - 10 of them on screen as a news and current affairs reporter - before becoming the Financial Times ski correspondent in 1986. In 2001 became editor of Ski & Board, the Ski Club of Great Britain’s magazine. He has now skied in 650 resorts in 26 countries and has no plans to hang up his skis until he has made it 1,000. In 1994 he skied every day for a year - a feat which took him to 240 resorts in 13 countries around the world, and into the Guinness Book of Records. His next mission is to ski in all 40 of America’s “skiing states” – he has 12 to go. Wilson, who has four skiing daughters, is also the author of several books about skiing. Snow Crazy (2003) chronicled some of the most intriguing and amusing events in the first 100 years of the Ski Club of Great Britain’s history – written to celebrate the club’s centenary. He has just completed work as contributing editor of a new Ski Atlas, to be published later this year by New Holland. Wilson has also written about skiing for more than 50 magazines world-wide. He and his Swedish wife, Vivianne – who were married on the mountain at Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 2000 - live in West Sussex, England.

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Recent reviews by Arnie Wilson Ski Whistler Skiing in Whistler, Canada Re-named Whistler Mountain in 1965 (after the cry of the ubiquitous western hoary marmot, or Whistle Pig) the pleasantly car-free village centre was... Ski Zermatt Skiing in Zermatt, Switzerland No matter where you find yourself on the slopes of this remarkable ski area, the granite monolith of Europe’s most famous peak, the Matterhorn, seems to ... Chamonix Skiing in Chamonix, France Both crowned and dwarfed by Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps and its gigantic collection of attendant glaciers which tumble into the Mer de ... St Anton am Arlberg Skiing in St Anton am Arlberg, Austria For many, St Anton-am-Arlberg is both the cradle and Holy Grail of the skiing and snowboarding world. Ringed by majestic peaks, it has slopes of the highest ... La Grave Skiing in La Grave, France Cliché or not, the phrase “mean, moody and magnificent” applies so aptly to the quite extraordinary ski area of La Grave that I hope I am forgiven for using ... Arnie Wilson has written 10 reviews. See more »

Arnie Wilson has reviewed 6 countries.