The roads rewarded arduous climbs on torturous roads with open views and sweeping downhill dives into Mediterranean towns with views over the sparkling Sardinian seas.
I remember the rope in his fist around my chest, his other fist shoving the snow, and downhill we dived, his boots by my boots on the tongue, pines whishing by, ice in my eyes, blinking and squealing.
"Because I loved roller coasters and caffeine and downhill skiing and scuba diving, but the rush wasn't enough...
When Dunst is asked gingerly about Von Trier's infamous comments at a press conference in Cannes - you know, the one where he declared, "I really wanted to be a Jew and then I found out that I was really a Nazi" (it went downhill from there), she dives right in.
It began with the ball going out after two seconds and went steadily downhill from there: stop, start, dive, foul, complain, repeat for ninety tedious minutes.
Meet Will Traynor - irony in an iron chair He's the dashing, motorcycle-riding, globe-trotting (make that globe-jumping) private-equity venture-capital type whose idea of a holiday was hanging over a ravine, throwing himself out of an airplane, cliff-diving, big-slope downhill skiing, and, of course, bungee jumping.
I feathered the brake coming into West Bend, tracked out full throttle, and dove into the final Downhill corner with a quick-handed right turn of the steering wheel.
After celebrity diving, ice-skating and downhill skiing, BBC1 will on Saturday put contestants, including the former Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan, the boxer Carl Froch and the Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding, through the latest sporting discipline to hit primetime TV – gymnastics.
