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The Big Interview
Posted on October 22, 2019 | No CommentsMIKE TINDALL TACKLES NEW CHALLENGES Interview by Arnie Wilson It’s not every day you get to interview the Queen’s grandson-inlaw. I’ve met Prince Charles briefly a couple of times, and […] -
One heli of a day
Posted on July 3, 2013 | No CommentsLike a flying grain thresher, our Bell 205 rattles its way high above British Columbia’s magnificent Selkirk range, heading for Ghost Peak. At the controls, wearing a baseball hat and […] -
Franz Klammer – Ski Hero
Posted on July 3, 2013 | No CommentsEven non-skiers remember him – the King, or, more appropriately, the Kaiser of downhill racers, the one and only Franz Klammer. In Austria, particularly in his native Carinthia, he is […] -
Picabo’s Olympic Battle
Posted on July 3, 2013 | No CommentsHigh in the Andes, Picabo Street, the world’s most famous woman skier, is posing, like a fashion model, on a pile of cushions in a sunlit window seat. Behind her, […] -
Corbet’s Couloir
Posted on July 3, 2013 | No CommentsMany are called – but few jump in. They come from far and wide to test their mettle and acquire bragging rights in perhaps the most terrifying-looking challenge available to […] -
Skiing every ski state
Posted on May 27, 2011 | No CommentsPhoto: Jon Wyatt I first set skis on American snow late in the spring of 1978 – in Aspen and Vail, Colorado, and two Californian valleys: Squaw and Heavenly. It […] -
Warren Smith pioneers powder camps in Japan
Posted on May 27, 2011 | No CommentsAn English ski instructor called Smith has plunged one of Japan’s most celebrated ski resorts into crisis. The imagery could almost be likened to the classic scenario of a robot […] -
Ripping it up in Tornado Alley – well, sort of…
Posted on May 27, 2011 | No CommentsAs my Airbus touched down in the twin cities of Minneapolis-St Paul, a gleeful passenger shouted: “Enjoy the cold – I’ll be wearing shorts in five hours!” He was off […] -
Daredevil ski base-jumper who flew like a bird
Posted on May 27, 2011 | No CommentsObituary: Shane McConkey Shane McConkey, the man who found ways to ski off cliffs and even skyscrapers, was able to “slip the surly bonds of earth”, and enter an exhilarating […] -
Skiing in China
Posted on May 27, 2011 | No CommentsCatching a train in China is more fraught than in any other country I know. Forget just wandering onto the platform and climbing on board. You have to think of […]