Porter Fox

Author, Deep: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow

www.writingofthedisaster.com

Yes, we want to save skiing, but we want skiers to literally help save the world.

Porter Fox wants to save skiing, but more importantly he wants skiers to save the world. As the author of Deep: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow, Fox captured the 8,000-year-old sport of skiing, from prehistoric Norwegian hunters to present-day freeriders on the Rocky Mountains, and how climate disruption is threatening the sport. Fox has written about snow sports for many years in publications like the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and National Geographic Adventure.

Fox edits the award-winning literary travel writing journal, Nowhere, in Brooklyn. He graduated with an MFA in fiction from The New School in 2004

Porter Fox's Simple Shift

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I burn veggie oil in my diesel station wagon. As anybody who’s ever ridden with me will tell you it breaks down a lot.

Resilience

Live Event Appearances

Past event

Mountain Meltdown

The snow sports industry is going through rocky times.

A two-degree Celsius increase may be hard for most people to fathom, but its effects are clear to skiers and snowboarders. Climate change is moving the snowfall line up the mountains and the lower elevations are getting hit the hardest, according to Anne Nolin, professor of geosciences and hydroclimatology at Oregon State University.