Porter Fox

In 2012, a couple of skiers from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, noticed that snow was disappearing from the western U.S. and wondered how long it would be before it affected the mountains in their backyard. They called Porter Fox, a lifelong skier, former Jackson Hole News reporter and current Powder magazine editor, to inquire if he was interested in writing a book about climate change and snow. DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow was published a year and a half later. The book paints a picture of the rich culture of skiing, the miracle of snow and how both are in jeopardy if humans don’t stem climate change. While the book is filled with alarming data — Rocky Mountain spring snowpack is down by 20 percent and Europe has lost half of its glacial ice, for example — it offers solutions to curb the climate crisis. Fox, who is based in New York City, edits the literary travel writing journal Nowhere, and his work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Men’s Journal and National Geographic Adventure.

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