The Kosciusko Chalet at Charlotte Pass with snow to the roof-line in 1946. It was a great skiing year, not only for the snow cover but for the greater opening up of the snowfields after the war. The picture is from Rick Walkom’s Skiing Off the Roof, The Kosciusko Chalet at Charlotte Pass and its place in the history of the Australian snowfields. 167pp. $39.95. Alberg Press. The book is laced with splendid historic photographs of snow rescues, an appendectomy operation at the Chalet, old skiers and their gear and transport and the fire at the Chalet in 1938. It includes photographs developed from the camera found on the body of Laurie Seaman, who with Evan Hayes became Australia’s first skiing deaths in 1928. The text is full of anecdote and research and is a must for anyone who loves the Snowy Mountains.