The Lonely Skier is a 1947 thriller novel by British writer Hammond Innes.

It is set in the Dolomites where a number of people are hunting a stash of buried Nazi treasure.

The hero Neil Blair, recently demobbed from the army and unemployed, is hired to go to an isolated ski resort and pretend he is writing a screenplay.

In 1948 it was adapted into a film Snowbound directed by David MacDonald for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Dennis Price, Robert Newton and Herbert Lom.

[1] Jack Adrian relates how Innes completed an arduous skiing course in the Italian Dolomites before he was demobbed.