Apparently Unharmed : Riders of the Cresta Run

by Digiacomo, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781587990045
• ISBN10: 1587990040
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-23
• Publisher: Texere

Summary

Imagine facing a solid ice run with a vertical drop roughly the height of a fifty story building. Your steel toboggan has no steering mechanism, no brakes. You're riding face first, inches from the ice, at speeds up to 80 mph. There's nothing between you and disaster (or at least another visit to the local hospital) than wits, body language, and the steel spikes that jut from the toes of your boots. You're standing at the top of the legendary Cresta Run in St Moritz, Switzerland.

Author Biography

Michael DiGiacomo has worked as both an investment banker and a lawyer. A graduate of Yale College and Fordham Law School, he served as a law clerk to a federal appellate judge and teaches law as an adjunct professor

Table of Contents

Preface	13	(5)
Foreword	18	(2)
A Rider's Perspective	20	(2)
Cresta Run	22	(3)
Getting Started	25	(2)
Megalothymia	27	(6)
Top	33	(2)
Down the Run	35	(12)
Achtung! Camion!	47	(2)
The Power of Tower	49	(4)
The Death Talk	53	(4)
The Year of Living Dangerously	57	(3)
Condom Suits and Pointy Boots	60	(5)
Race Day	65	(2)
Prizegiving	67	(2)
The Colours and The Cups	69	(4)
Plaques of Honor	73	(2)
Edi and the Changing Room	75	(4)
Top Hut Zen	79	(2)
Getting into the Dream	81	(3)
Moldy Oldies	84	(3)
Getting There	87	(2)
Sankt Moritz	89	(5)
Apres Cresta	94	(2)
Badrutt's Bet	96	(3)
The Palace	99	(1)
Yogi	100	(3)
A Sporting Club	103	(1)
L'Esprit	104	(3)
The President	107	(3)
The Hon. Life President	110	(2)
The Vicar	112	(1)
Expenses	113	(3)
Ladies' Day	116	(4)
Schlitten	120	(3)
Anatomy of a Flattop	123	(4)
Toboggan Variations	127	(4)
Starting Techniques	131	(1)
The Adventures of Arnold	132	(6)
Gurus	138	(2)
Top Beginners	140	(2)
Bruno and the Kamikaze	142	(3)
Ode to Foolishness	145	(3)
The Cresta Kiss and Other Unpleasantries	148	(6)
Death on the Run	154	(2)
The Shuttlecock Club	156	(3)
Shuttlecock Dinners	159	(4)
Billy Fiske	163	(4)
Bond, James Bond	167	(1)
The World's Fastest Greengrocer and His llk	167	(4)
Sunshine's Boy	171	(3)
The Lord Wrottesley	174	(2)
Their Duel Continued	176	(4)
East v. West	180	(2)
The Stars and Stripes	182	(5)
The Human Firework	187	(2)
The Stoat, and the Cresta Spirit	189	(2)
A Georges Prade Cup	191	(9)
Cocktails at Clinic Gut	200	(3)
Another Georges Prade Cup	203	(6)
Endnotes	209	(2)
Bibliography	211	(2)
Acknowledgments	213