Sentence examples for off-piste skier from inspiring English sources

Not being an experienced off-piste skier, I got the chance to appreciate the way the sunlight sparkled through the araucaria trees - as I ended up on my back in the snow several times during the descent.

Glencoe Mountain Resort said the experienced off-piste skier had been caught in a major avalanche.

Recently, colleagues at our hospital reported the case of a female off-piste skier who fell and was trapped head down between rocks and overlying ice, and sprinkled with glacial water in her face until cardiac arrest.

Many off-piste skiers will identify with this situation.

Even off-piste skiers who occasionally do visit the ski areas make a point of finding discounted tickets, staying at offbeat hotels, and packing their own lunches.

Saturday's avalanche in the French Alps was one of the deadliest involving skiers since January 2006, when five off-piste skiers were buried by snow.

Off-piste skiers wanting a challenge can hire a guide to tackle the Massif de la Lauzière, which is gaining a reputation among expert skiers who want a mountainside pretty much to themselves.

£1,334 for 8 days, naturetravels.co.uk Banff, Canada Off-piste skiers and boarders can ski-tour or splitboard from camp to camp in the wilderness, learning everything from site selection to rescue protocol.

For off-piste skiers, Fieberbrunn is blessed with a topography that puts a large and varied expanse of terrain at your ski tips straight from the lifts, without even a short hike.

For the willing but inexpert off-piste skiers, like my friend and me, there were rare opportunities here and in nearby La Mongie and St Lary to try skiing through deep, fresh snow – often, in fact, on runs that overwhelmed pisteurs couldn't groom in the exceptional conditions.

We used a qualitative research design and conducted 29 semi-structured group interviews with backcountry skiers and off-piste skiers in Switzerland during the winter of 2013.