"Seventy miles an hour down a forty degree sheet of snow and ice. That's what the men of the U.S. ski team do almost without blinking an eye. What they're after is speed - to see who can get down that hill the fastest, without breaking his neck. They do it to see how far they can push themselves. They also do it for money, for America, and for the sheer, heart-pounding thrill of it. Downhillers are like the lunatic driver who pushes his rustbucket Chevy to 115 mph on a narrow country road and then cackles. "Let's see what this baby will really do." Downhillers think that way about their own bodies. Let's see what this baby will really do." "Right on the Edge of Crazy cuts to the center of this passion in a searing portrait of these ski racers who stake their youth for the adrenaline rush of perfecting this most difficult - and riotous - of sports. Mike Wilson, a staff writer at the Miami Herald's Tropic magazine, portrays the glamour, intensity, and intoxication of their lives, following them across Europe and North America as they sweep into each resort along the tour, party like crazy, and fight like hell to keep their place among this elite group of athletes." "Right on the Edge of Crazy hurls us into a world of breathtaking beauty and unspeakable danger. It is a story as fastpaced, invigorating, and full of life as a downhill ski run."--BOOK JACKET.
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