This may be the first issue but some members of staff have been around since the ski show finished. So to be correct this should be called injuries of the month. Surprisingly there have been no skiing related accidents. First on the list happened at
Skival training in London. Abie(Isba) had a nasty moving car/hard pavement coming together resulting in a cheese grater effect over half her face. The trooper that Abie is, she still turned up to training before being taken to Accident and Emergency.
Mr Beilby(TJ's floater) literally drew first blood of the season while working the pole in Le Grange. His early season boarding was put on hold after losing contact with the pole and sustaining a nasty gash on his hip from the wooden base of the pole.
I'm sure everyone will be glad to hear that after being shown the wound in every stage of its healing process that Ollie will never need to pull his pants down for my pleasure again!
For a week the resort was packed with 170ish Ski World chalet staff that were training in the Auberge and Catina by day and Gringos and TJ's by night. One girl was not so lucky after she was found bleeding, concussed, inebriated and shoeless behind TJ's.
How she came to be there is still a bit a mystery. However one of the TJ's staff jumped into action and practiced his first aid on her although I don't thing she need to be given the kiss of life so many times!
Just to prove that the pros hurt themselves just as much as the amateurs. One evening earlier this week outside Le
Kalico a slightly drunken Pat Sharples attempted a rail slide across two barriers that had been positioned by some boarders a few days earlier. Unfortunately a mixture of alcohol and bad positioning of the two barriers caused Pat to fall, catching his ribs on the cold metal. Luckily they were only bruised.
Pat denied that alcohol had anything to do with his fall instead blaming himself.
However his true alcohol/blood level was confirmed when he tried to get into the wrong car in the car park!
