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Having a heart attack whilst skiing

I have called this a personal view because general medical assumptions and statistics are only as I understand them to be and probably not as they are. A year ago, whilst on an SCGB run to the new Montfort area of Verbier I had a heart attack. It happened at the bottom of Tortin. Tortin, as those who have been down it know, is a slightly hairy run and it is inadvisable to fall, particularly at the top. So to an intermediate skier like myself there is bound to be tension and this is probably what triggered off the heart attack. The first...

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Pearls on the slopes...

Pearls on the slopes...
…Après ski wear is fairly casual; but pearls – string or earrings – worn at all times, even on the slopes. Wise girls take out extra insurance with Michael Pettifer (Kent SRM and skier, the Sloane ski insurance man at Douglas Cox Tyrie)… From the Official Sloane Ranger Handbook, Ebury Press,...

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Just in case

Schu Schu Schu, BANG, Crash!!!! Oh dear, something seems to hurt. Since I seem to have become a statistic, I must be one of 35 skiers in every 100 who hurt themselves each year. I wonder if I have broken my leg? Little chance of that, as very few people break legs these days. It could be an arm, but then only one fifth of ski injuries are to the...

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