Arnie is living proof that you can take up skiing late (30 in his case) and keep going into the autumn and even the winter of your life. Mind you, he has skied rather a lot – in more than 660 resorts in 25 countries – including an entire year in 1994 when he skied for 365 consecutive days, earning a place in the Guinness Book of Records. All that's changed these days is that he stops for lunch on the mountain instead of skiing remorselessly from dawn to dusk.
After a career in Fleet Street, TV and radio, Arnie started writing about skiing for the Financial Times in 1986, and has edited the Ski Club of Great Britain's magazine Ski+board since 2001. Arnie has also written or co-written five ski books, and his latest mission is to ski in every skiing state in the USA. So far he has skied in 36 out of 40, and hopes to complete his mission by 2010.