Hello skiers, climbers, and friends,

I hope every one of you is excited for the coming winter. I am thrilled to let you all know that a summer’s worth of hard work on my coffee-table book has paid off and it is at the printer. “Ski The 14ers: A Visual Tribute To Colorado’s 14,000-foot Peaks From The Eyes Of A Ski Mountaineer”, from Capitol Peak Publishing, is a 152 page hard-cover book almost as large as the ski project itself. Over 400 color photos from eight different photographers and plenty of exciting writing grace the over-sized pages of the book. I am very proud of how it turned out and am sure that many of you will find it a strong motivator to get out into the mountains and climb and ski your hearts out. I am honored that Lou Dawson has lent his intimate knowledge of the peaks to the book with a wonderful forward on the history of ski mountaineering in Colorado.

“Ski The 14ers” will be ready to ship in early December, but is available now for advanced orders from www.wolverinepublishing.com/ski_14ers.html

The book is $49.95 plus shipping and is only available from Wolverine Publishing until 2008, when it will be widely available in stores. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (www.cfi.org) and the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (www.avalanche.state.co.us)

I hope this book is as inspiring to you as these mountains have been for me, and may the snows fall deep in your zone this winter.

Kindest Regards,
Chris Davenport

P.S. For those of you curious about the status of the film, we are still trying to work things out with the Forest Service and I will keep you updated if anything positive transpires