So fed up of stories like this every single year. Stupid bloody Skiing.

as above, don't do it if you don't want to.

I go to a boxing club twice a week. You don't know what you're missing 😂

It's like driving or cycling - not just yourself you need to be careful of it's all the other idiots on the slopes/roads. Two family members have had bad leg bone breaks from other skiers crashing into them

Agreed. I enjoy skiing, but I am definitely not 'taking on mother nature' 😂

It's the stupidest sport. Strap a blade on each foot and fling yourself down a mountain. I've never seen the appeal.

I grew up in a skiing family and one of my DC worked in the mountains running ski lifts. He says that by far the biggest cause of accidents is reckless skiers (usually young men) going far too fast and injuring themselves and sadly sometimes the people they ski into. In North America reckless skiers can have their lift passes confiscated. Sadly this doesn't happen in Europe. Tragically it appears that the young man who died was going very fast and lost control resulting in a freak accident. His poor family must be absolutely devastated.

That's really not the reality of skiing for the vast majority of people who do it. The idea that the average recreational skier cruising blues and reds is "laughing in Mother Nature's face" is ridiculous - the comparison is more "cycling along the towpath with your 5 year old" then riding a motorcycle at high speed on narrow country lanes.

Ok Scandi Mandy 🙄

My ex put a rib through her liver in a skiing accident.

My mother has the same attitude to risk as you OP.

I point out to her that despite the (tiny) risk, I am absolutely certain that me running (often long distances) does so much for my general (physical and mental) wellbeing that I will live a much longer and healthier life because of it. And running increasing in general popularity will have benefited society as a whole.

I don't think it really matters. People who ski know (or should know, it's bloody obvious) that participating in a dangerous activity brings a risk of life-changing injury and death. That's part of the thrill, it's about laughing in Mother Nature's face and beating her at her own game. If you roll the dice often enough Mother Nature will have the last laugh, but the enjoyment of skiing is that you know you are risking your life. It's the same with riding a motorcycle at high speed along narrow country lanes. You're free because you're living in the moment. There's no future and no past, only now. It has to be that way, if you don't think like that you will have a bad outcome.

Well even Dr. Michael Mosley succumbed to that one which I still find shocking.

Got any actual stats for that or just a 'feeling'?

@ExcessiveNumberOfNinjas - actually I found it for you. It's 1 in 100 runners that have excessive collapse. Here's an interesting article. https://www.medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/medics-and-london-marathon-5-questions-race-medical-director-2019a1000063
Anyone who's not properly prepared, has underlying health conditions, hasn't trained, hydrated or fuelled adequately etc has a higher chance of collapse. But clearly for the vast majority of people it's a fairly uneventful day and actually as the doctor here says, probably one of the better places to have a medical emergency as there's so many expert doctors there. But clearly 96% of people have no serious problem on the day.
Compare that to 80 people being injured and 5 dying on our roads every day and the London marathon really doesn't seem that risky at all.

I mean @ExcessiveNumberOfNinjas by all means say things like "I bet..." with no actual facts behind it, much like you claimed deaths was an annual occurrence. There's just no need for scaremongering. People have heart attacks all the time, they collapse all the time. Mostly actually because of not doing things like running and keeping healthy. Overexertion can be a problem but sedentary lifestyles are far, far worse for health and will affect far more people per annum, causing more heart attacks, collapses and death than participating in the London Marathon. I think if you wanted to find out for sure St John's ambulance and London Ambulance services would have statistics on how many people they treated the day of the London Marathon. But there's a hospital admission for heart attacks every FIVE minutes in the UK

I’m minded that there were more deaths of men (middle aged and young) going for walks on hot mediterranean islands last year than there were deaths by skiing. Perhaps walking should be reclassified as a dangerous sport and anyone caught doing it, or injured in the act thereof, should be denied NHS treatment for being so reckless…

I don't find playing an instrument or any of the other examples dull, I was pointing out the invalid logic that categorically states skiing is the only thrill inducing activity, and the further more stupid argument, that none skiing children are obese and addicted to their smart phones. It is akin to arguing that thrill seeking sporty children, that do not have the concentration span to learn to read music or have no curiosity about the world around them, completely lack an imagination!

My DC can go skiing with my DH, they don't want to, they are not interested. My DH doesn't think learning to ski is some kind of virtue so he's not bothered that they refuse his offer. He shares other interests with them art being one of them as he is an Architect, his DC being interested in Art and Design are more important to him. It has been more important to ignite our DC's imagination as in our opinion, this is key to living a fulfilled life, i.e I don't think they should have to make a trip to a ski slope to feel fulfilled.

Based on which statistics? Have you contacted every ski resort in the world, or just stating nonsense because you haven't had the agreement you required from the post?
Would you bet your house on yet another ridiculous assertion?

Indeed

unfortunately with respect to the poor kid that died obviously that’s tragic but often road deaths just don’t make the news, there are so many of them

Christ yes, I’d far rather my kids went skiing than got in a car with a teenage driver.

And the elderly. They should have to pay a monthly subscription after 70 or save for health separately in their lives ready for old age like in the US, they cost an absolute fortune to be treated and block beds.

to add further to this,I’m fairly sure the risk of dying while a teenage driver are far higher than the risk of dying while skiing

most parents I know are desperate for their 17-18 year old kids to start driving

We’re just back from an amazing week’s ski-ing.

I grew up in Scotland so learnt to ski (a bit) from around 12. DH is a brilliant skier/snowboarder as he learnt at 9. DC started at 7 by going to Ski School and are now better than me. We’ve taught them how to behave on the slopes, DH goes down first and I follow behind to pick anyone up if they need it. We tell them where to stop on the run and they do.

DH skis to our limits and we don’t do anything crazy. It’s like any other outdoor activity and I don’t think it’s any more dangerous than mountain biking etc. We’ve never had anything worse than a totally normal fall. Oh, and I’m a peri menopausal vaguely unfit not in the slightest athletic over 50 yr old so do strength training to lessen the likelihood of pinging something.