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Jul

The Elegance of Skiing Print E-mail

Before I came to The Alpine School I had never been skiing before and I always thought it looked like such an elegant sport - but now that I am learning to ski, my opinion on the sport has changed.

Today was the second time I had ever been skiing; I fell while going down hills, up hills, while turning and even when standing still. I fell over a total of 9 times- and they definitely weren’t elegant falls.

We have been told by the staff here at The Alpine School that we should spend as many hours of our spare time skiing as possible, because come the time when we will be skiing all day with a heavy pack on our back for our expedition- we will have wished that we had done more practise.

So my plan over the next 2 weeks is to do exactly that- go out into the wonderful world of white with my skis and I’m hopefully going to minimise those 9 falls an hour down to at least 2 (fingers crossed).

Meg Y


 



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