About the Author:

Pete is an award-winning adventure writer and an avid backcountry skier. He is the author of At the Mercy of the Mountains: True Stories of Survival and Tragedy in New York’s Adirondacks (Lyons Press, March 2008), and Hunting Nature's Fury: A Storm Chaser’s Obsession with Tornadoes, Hurricanes and other Natural Disasters (Lyons Press, March 2009). Pete wrote about the history and experience of backcountry skiing four of Colorado’s lost ski areas for 5280: Denver’s Mile-High Magazine.