Ruby - learnt to ski at age 6 before switching to snowboarding at age 16!

“When I was 6, my dad pushed me down a steep hill on skis and I learnt to turn for survival, then I learnt to go fast because I have older brothers and if they could catch me, they’d push me over.”

Jan - learnt to ski at age 32!  (right)

“One day in Telluride, I was watching my daughter in a ski lesson from the chairlift, she quickly disappeared into the two-foot deep powder, I felt for the poor instructor who had to put her back together!”

Claudia - learnt to ski at age 3! (left)

“Learning to go was easy enough, learning to stop was the hard part for me. One time when I was super young, I couldn’t stop, I just skied right into the boundary net.”

Alex - learnt to ski as a teenager!

“The first time I snowboarded I lied to my friend and said I had done it before. It wasn’t until we were in France and it took me half an hour to get from the bunny hill to the lift until he realised I wasn’t telling the truth.”

Henry – learnt to ski at age 5! (right)

“When I was 5 or 6, I was skiing down a cat track and I ended up falling down a double black diamond. Everyone was freaking out.”

Matt - learnt to ski at age 24! (right)

“My first memory of learning to snowboard was at Falls Creek, on a pretty steep and narrow blue run called Final Muster! It was super icy and of course I spent my entire day falling on my butt and my wrists. To make matters worse, I spent two whole days trying to make it down the run without lessons because firstly, I was stubborn and secondly, my sister told me I didn’t need to and I believed her.”

Lesson learnt - take a lesson!

Wilson - leant to ski at age 16! (left)

“My first ever lesson, I got way over-confident and I just booked it, went so fast, couldn’t get an edge and people had to dive out of my way. I fell, hard. But ever since then I was hooked, I did 5 seasons overseas!”

Bonus photo: Lucy - learnt to ski at age 3! (right)