Arnie Wilson spent 15 years in television - 10 of them
on screen as a news and current affairs reporter - before becoming the Financial Times ski correspondent in 1986.

A passionate hobby had taken over his life. He has now written more than 250 articles on skiing for the FT. In 1994 he skied every day for a year in the Financial Times Round The World Ski Expedition - a feat which took him to 240 resorts in 13 countries around the world, and into the Guinness Book of Records. The story was told in Ski The World, with an introduction from Clint Eastwood, whom he met on his travels.

Another first: his reports appeared every Saturday in the FT throughout the year - 52 consecutive ski features.