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Independent - 05 April 2008, 02:00 (+ 5885 days 19 hours and 45 minutes) Tourism & Travel
Fear, for the inept skier, is frightfully easy to define: the moment of no return when physics collides with psychology. You are heading towards a tree or a precipice with too much speed and too little control. With gravity, velocity and instinct all pointing in conflicting directions, the only solution is to turn. This manoeuvre inevitably involves temporarily facing straight downhill with gathering speed, hoping that a combination of footwork and friction will help you to evade disaster – and that you will not find yourself in too close proximity to the random trajectories of other incompetent alpinists.