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Patrick lives in the Scottish Highlands and has offices overlooking Loch Ness.
He has worked as a ski journalist for 17 years, has had 14 travel books published as well as hundreds of articles and his contributions to atlases, CD ROMs and international guidebooks in Europe and North America. He was recently named "Travel writer of the year" in the Sports and Travel category of the North American Ski Journalists Association.
In 1991 after working on the staff of British ski publications, Patrick set up his own business Snow Hunter ltd, with the objective of finding every ski center in the world. He was surprised, ten year later, to discover he'd found 6000 in 80 countries, twice the previously acknowledged total.
In the process he'd built up the world's largest database of winter sports resorts, with over 3 million items of information and 500,000 words of resort description. This database, along with nearly 10,000 images, maps, logos, videos and web cam images will soon be online at: www.snow24.com.
Patrick's company now supplies many of the world's leading online companies including AOL, BBC, Microsoft and RSN with their winter resorts content. It also researches and publishes around 500 news stories yearly from the winter sports world.
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