From Snow to Ash

Feature Review - At several points Sharwood laments that even among the bushwalking fraternity, the AAWT is relatively unknown. “Maybe one day it will get the attention it deserves.” He needn’t worry. For in penning Snow to Ash, Sharwood has almost single-handedly achieved that.–ACT [PRINT] Canberra Times [AUDIENCE: 19,268 ASR: AUD 7,455]From Snow to Ash is an adventure memoir littered with humour that pays homage to the glorious Snowy Mountains of the Australian Alps.–NATIONAL [PRINT] Australian Geographic [AUDIENCE: 56,887 ASR: AUD 29,806]Date TBC–Brent McKean, NATIONAL [PRINT] Great Walks MagazineDate TBC–Kate Allman, NATIONAL [PRINT] Law Society JournalDate TBC–Keeley O’Connor, NATIONAL [PRINT] Haven MagazineDate TBC–Melissa Penn, NATIONAL [PRINT] Highlife MagazineDate TBC–Rama Gaind, ONLINE PS NewsDate TBC–Terri Cowley, NATIONAL [PRINT] RM Williams Outback MagazineDate TBC–NATIONAL [PRINT] Reader’s DigestDate TBC–WA [PRINT] Play, The West Australian [AUDIENCE: 219,242 ASR: AUD 60,792]If you are looking for more inspiration to explore this beautiful country of ours I would definitely recommend reading From Snow to Ash.–Melissa Chambers, NATIONAL [ONLINE] All Around OzReview–QLD [PRINT] Courier Mail [AUDIENCE: 166,502 ASR: AUD 5,884]Sharwood does an excellent job of conveying the constant sense of worry that solo hiking involves, and an equally excellent job of weaving in salient points about the threatened Alps environment and its history, without it ever feeling forced or taking us out of his story.–VIC [PRINT] Herald Sun [AUDIENCE: 306,571 ASR: AUD 57,674]Three books set the gold standard for stories about walking […] Now we might add to that list a distinctive, charming narrative by Anthony Sharwood, about a walk which ends in our backyard.–ACT [PRINT] Canberra Times [AUDIENCE: 28,695 ASR: AUD 7,887]What begins as a wilderness adventure travelogue becomes a snapshot of a hellish time.–NSW [PRINT] Daily Telegraph [AUDIENCE: 221,641 ASR: AUD 8,191]

Anthony Sharwood is a Walkley Award-winning journalist specialising in sports, the outdoors, weather and climate. He has spent the last 10 years as a writer and editor on leading Australian news websites, and has also presented television shows, radio programs and a podcast.

A skier, hiker and lifelong lover of Australia’s High Country, Ant’s brain was pretty much fried after a decade of digital journalism. The Australian Alps Walking Track was a chance to escape, to cleanse, to reset. From Snow to Ash documents that trek. Ant lives with his wife and two teenagers in a Sydney suburb nobody has ever heard of.

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