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The Ultimate-Ski.com website is a the result of thousands of hours work including contributions from our team of ski journalists whose impartiality, authority and expertise is central to our endeavour - we aim to bring you the best ski resort information online anywhere and then to make it better. It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it...

David Holyoak
Publisher, Ultimate-Ski.com
Founder of Ultimate Sports Media Ltd and Ultimate-Ski.com, David has a passion for all things skiing, especially St Anton am Arlberg which he has visited more often than we care to remember, always taking regular tea breaks between turns - as the picture proves! David is the driving force behind Ultimate-Ski.com but fortunately he is mostly too busy with commercial activities and Internet to have time to ski or to write, so those better qualified than him get the opportunity to do so with minimum interference.

Eric Kendall
Editor, Ultimate-Ski.com
Eric has been writing about and photographing adventure sports for fifteen years. He has skied in Europe, North America, South America and New Zealand, writing about his adventures for newspapers and magazines in the UK and beyond. In summer 2007, Eric and wife Penny, relocated from London to their new home – an Auberge at 1,500m in Zinal, Valais, Switzerland which they are now busy renovating until it’s time to get back on the slopes. A recent count left him woefully short of Arnie Wilson’s resort tally, though of course he’s not nearly as old.

Isobel Rostron
Editorial Contributor, Ultimate-Ski.com
Passionate about skiing from an early age, Isobel founded the Snowmole range of guidebooks after a season in Verbier convinced her to abandon a sensible career in the law. She now spends each winter researching ski resorts worldwide - and each summer dreaming about the next winter. She is also the editor of the Warren Smith Ski Academy handbooks and a BASI Instructor. Now living winter and summer in Chamonix - her favourite place in the Alps - Isobel has skied extensively, in France and Switzerland especially

Arnie Wilson
Ski author and editor
Arnie spent 15 years in television before becoming the Financial Times ski correspondent in 1986. In 2001 he also became editor of Ski & Board magazine. In 1994 he skied every day for a year - a feat that took him to 240 resorts in 13 countries around the world, and into the Guinness Book of Records. Arnie has now skied in over 660 resorts and has no plans to hang up his skis until he has made it 1,000. His next mission is to ski in all 39 of America’s “skiing states” – he has 5 to go. Our most experienced ski writer by far and a true gent!

Leslie Woit
Ski journalist
Canadian Leslie Woit has skied since childhood and is a certified member of the Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance. She instructed in Canada and Switzerland and then worked as marketing director for Mike Wiegele Heliskiing in British Columbia before editing Fall Line Skiing Magazine. Well regarded for her entertaining writing style, Leslie now writes about skiing - and more - for publications around the world. After a 12-week summer stint working as a milkmaid and living in a wooden hut at 1,500m in Austria’s Steinerne Meer mountains, Leslie is itching to get back to the Alps.

Felix Milns
Ski journalist and photographer
A keen player in the hunt for global powder and always the first to jump into a couloir, Felix Milns is a freelance travel journalist and photographer who specialises in skiing. He writes for The Evening Standard, The Express and The Times and is also a regular contributor to Ski and Board Magazine. Felix has co-authored several books on skiing and regularly appears on the BBC as a travel expert. His favourite resort is St Anton, home of the Mooserwirt , the world's best après ski bar. Prosit!

Graham Austick
Mountain guide and expedition leader
Graham is owner and leading guide at Piste To Powder, the ski guiding company based in St Anton, Austria. Where he has been guiding off-piste in the Arlberg every winter for nearly 20 years. He also offers tuition for skiers wanting to improve their deep snow skiing skills.The rest of his year is spent mountaineeing and leading ski expeditions including first descents in Alaska, Greenland and the Himalayas. Lately he has been in the Lyngen Alps in Norways Artic Circle where he is building a swish log cabin as a base for guided ski tours by boat.

Nick Parks
Mountain guide and expedition leader
Nick has been an IFMGA mountain guide since 1987. He got into ski racing as a junior and was an instructor in Scotland before his addiction to off-piste. He founded the guiding company Mountain Tracks in 2000 following 10 years as Director of Outdoor Education at Marlborough College. He has been leading mountain expeditions on skis and on foot for almost 20 years, taking clients to some of the most remote corners of the globe. Today Nick is equally at home on alpine and telemark skis and is getting there on a snowboard.

David Murdoch
Skier
David Murdoch has been an obsessively passionate skier since his first sliding experience at Cairngorm aged 4. He now alternates between a real job marketing investment software and a real love of mountains and skiing. His current objective is maximise the numbers of days skied each year while holding down a full time corporate position. He has skied in many European and US resorts, is a keen heli-skier having twice visited TLH Helisking and regularly competes in the annual Inferno ski race. David and wife Sophie now live in Geneva and Chamonix.

Warren Smith
Performance ski trainer and coach
Warren Smith is the founder of Snowsport Synergy Ltd and our Verbier off-piste expert. He is one of Britain’s leading professional freeskiers and an internationally certified performance coach. He has spent many years teaching recreational skiers, developing ski instructors and coaching racers all over Europe, and has earned a name for getting results with his students. Warren and his partner, photographer Melody Sky, live in the Swiss resort of Verbier where they have spent 15 years skiing some of the world’s best ski terrain and diving his time between coaching for his Academy, filming and organising events.

Penny Kendall
Photographer
A comparative late-comer to skiing, Penny has spent the last ten years making up for lost time, getting plenty of miles on snow while taking photos for the ski press. Married to our ski Editor and adventure travel writer, Eric Kendall, Penny is accustomed to travelling around the world and recording their experiences on camera as well as chasing Eric up and down some gnarly descents. Her work can be seen in magazines, newspapers and websites, as well as on Ultimate-Ski.com.

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