A beginner’s guide to skiing in the French Alps

A beginner’s guide to skiing in the French Alps

Frozen with both fear and cold, I lay in the snow as skiers sped past me. It was my first day on the slopes, and in my naivety I had tackled Avoriaz’s famous Boulevard des Skieurs after one three-hour lesson, before I could even really turn.At 36, this was a baptism of fire. Having not grown up in a skiing household, and not from the type of background where skiing is something you might try, it felt like it was too late to learn, or that it sim…