The Pull Of The Wild
National Geographic Traveller (UK)|December 2017

LOOKING FOR AN EXTRA SHOT OF ADRENALIN WHILE YOU SKI? JUST ADD A HORSE — AND FOCUS

Seamus Mcdermott
The Pull Of The Wild

“Bring the front of your skis together in a pizza shape to slow down”, my ski instructor Jacamo had told me. I keep repeating it over and over in my head. It all seemed so exhilaratingly easy on the nursery slopes of St Moritz ski school that morning, surrounded by toppling kids. I’d mastered the basics of skiing relatively easily in three hours of training, and had a bit of a thrill taking a blue run back down the mountain. But now the moment of truth had come. Could a complete novice skier take on skijoring?

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