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Ski for your life!!!

It was a normal Italian Skiing holiday until something extraordinary happened! AVALANCHE!

This is what everyone fears and on a ski resort they’re quite uncommon, but never doubt the power of nature.

I begin on the ultimate black slope, the slope everyone aims to get on but everyone fears. I get the weirdest feeling in my stomach, I feel it lift to the bottom of my throat and my jaws tighten, as I journey up the mountain in the rickety chair lift. I feel irresistible excitement. When I get to the top I know there’s only one way down, although terrified, I know I have to do it.

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Half way down the mountains, someone slips away from our group, hits some ice, loses control and slips into a barrier at the side of the mountain. As they hit the fresh snow they cause an avalanche.

Seeing the snow pummel down the mountain likes waves hitting cliffs.

I don’t know what to do; my body froze because for a split second I thought my life was over. My brain screams “move, move” but my body doesn’t listen. I see five or six black dots half way down the mountain where the avalanche is heading. At first they don’t ...

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