SLOPE & GLORY

A Slope Starters holiday with Crystal Ski will have beginner skiers flying downs the mountain in just one week, writes Rachel Beresford

- by RACHEL BERESFORD & ROHAN SMYTH

Big pizza!

Two words I didn't expect to hear on a loop on my first-ever ski trip. At the apres ski, perhaps, after working up an appetite on the slopes.

On the mountain, though, 'big pizza' means you are going too fast and it's time to push your heels out and the front of your skis together to form the shape of a slice of pizza — the bigger the slice, the faster you stop. BIG PIZZA.