Ski injuries
Sir,—Ski-ing is not a dangerous sport. Serious injury accidents and fatalities are uncommon on the ski-fields, nevertheless they do occur. A common cause of the more serious accidents is a fall on a steep or icy slope, followed by an uncontrolled slide down the mountain. Mountaineers face this same danger and one of the first lessons they learn is how to use an ice-axe to arrest a slide. I have been ski-ing for nearly three decades, but never have I seen or heard of any training being given to skiers in the art of using edges and poles for the purpose of quickly arresting a slide. I believe thaj the absence of this training intermediate classes in the ski schools has resulted in many skiers being more vulnerable than they need be to falling over and sliding down the mountain. — Yours, etc.,
GEOFF LEICESTER. September 4, 1989.
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