No Hill Too Fast

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985. M4 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Steve Mahre and Phil Mahre and inscribed to previous owner on the front free endpaper in very good condition in poor dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, open tears, moderate tears and taped tears on the edges, corners, and sides, scattered wrinkling, scratches, rubbing, scuffing, and stains, tanning, and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and dents, wrinling on the spine edges, tear, chipping and peeling on the front bottom right corner, some stains on the lower part of the cover, some dog-eared pages, light tanning and shelf wear. 9.5"x7.5", 382 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. In the history of international ski competition, no American racers have achieved the success of twin stars Phil and Steve Mahre. Their dominance of the grueling World Cup circuit in the early eighties, their great rivalry with the Swedish racer Ingemar Stenmark, their outspokenness on the issues of ski training and international regulation of the sport, and their unprecedented gold- and silver-medal triumphs on the last day of the '84 Winter Olympics have made them legends. Now, for the first time, the brothers tell their remarkable story. It is a story of family pride and unity, of triumph over adversity, and of breathtaking competition. Raised in a tiny community in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, they showed early in their childhood an astonishing flair and love for speed on skis, but it was only through the guidance, sacrifice, and support oof the rest of their large family that the twins were able to develop the discipline and find the means that would take them to national prominence. Just when they were about to establish their eminence in the fiercely competitive arena of international racing - the youngest Americans ever to reach such a point - a series of devastating injuries almost closed out their careers before they had begun. How they came back to reach the pinnacle of their sport - and their frank revelations of that sport - is a story at once inspirational and provocative. At its heart is their own remarkable symbiotic kinship - an example of mutual support between brothers, even while each was intent on outdoing the other - that is without precedent in modern sports. But No Hill Too Fast is more than the autobiography of two great athletes; it is also a guide that offers recreational skiers a revolutionary approach to achieving speed and proficiency on skis. In the seven instructional sections that alternate with the biographical chapters, including more than one hundred photographs - many in unique composite sequences - the Mahres explain their technique and adapt it to the abilities of the ordinary skier. Elegantly simple, based as it is on the ski itself as a carved beam from which all proficiency derives - balance, weight transfer, edge pressure - their approach is the first system to circumvent the traditional painstaking progress required by learning through graduated types of turns. With it, any able skier will be able to ski the "Mahre way." Here, then, is the ski book of the eighties, avidly awaited by Phil and Steve Mahre's legion of fans.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.