The Sherpa supermarket is the best place to pick up some two and a half Euro shampain – Sire de Beaupre. Not strictly from the champagne region, but it does fire the plastic cork out at an obscene rate of knots due to the low atmospheric pressure here – some 2.3km above the level where […]

Yesterday, I hated snowboarding. I adjusted my boots and bindings constantly, complained about the pain in my feet. I swore, I sulked, I moped. I decided the best way to enjoy snowboarding was using a PlayStation 2, SSX Tricky and a nice warm bed with no boots on. This morning I hated snowboarding. I fell,

Week one of snowboarding was about fear. Fear and pain. Week two was about confidence and fear. And pain. And violent snow storms. Our instructor for week one was an insipid thin lipped character called Stefan. Barely a smile crossed his face as he went through the motions of repeating: “Weight on the front leg”