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Patrick Thorne is one of the world's leading winter sports writers.
Working as a ski journalist year-round for all of his adult life, Patrick has written more than a dozen ski books, visited more than 250 ski resorts and had his work published in magazines, newspapers, guide books and online in more than 50 countries worldwide since the early 1980s.
In 1991 Patrick began a personal quest to locate every ski area on the planet, a task never before attempted. After three years he had located nearly 6,000 ski areas in 80 countries and the resulting database became the basis of a ski information business, Snow24, which has supplied many publishers around the world including AOL, the BBC, RSN, Sky, Teletext, TUI and Microsoft. Other clients of Patrick's work have included Aspen, Berlitz, Doppelmayr, Intrawest, Madonna di Campiglio, Sun 
Valley, Verbier and Zermatt.
In 1998 Patrick launched a weekly, year-round, ski news service which continues to this day, having posted more than 3,500 stories to date. In 2005 he compiled the world's first guide showing what individual ski resorts are doing to minimise their impact on the environment; this Green Resort Guide is published by the Ski Club of Great Britain.
Patrick also compiles an annual study of lift ticket prices from more than 300 resorts in 30 countries, updates a 200 page 'World Snowdome Report' which lists every indoor snow centre built and the companies behind these remarkable structures, and a further study which documents the world's 300 highest ski lifts, all above 3,200m/10,500 feet, and located across 50 ski areas on five continents.
Patrick has been quoted and referred to in leading publications around the world including CNN, The Financial Times, The Gulf Times, The LA Times, The New York Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, Radio Canada, The Wall Street Journal and The People's Daily in China. In 2000 Patrick received the 'Sports Travel Writer' award from the North American Travel Journalists Association.
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