Fifty years ago today, in the company of three other friends, I climbed and ski Vorlaz peak that towers over the Lindarets valley, near Avoriaz, France.
The first time was, a year or so earlier, when a helicopter from the “Protection Civile”, now Sécurité Civile, a french arm of the government, graciously whisked me along with Henri Marullaz, a colleague ski instructor, to the top in just minutes at taxpayers' expense..
The conditions were good and the experience very, very pleasurable. I’d never skied it again as I was now on the cusp of leaving for a new world of adventures, down under, in Australia, and most likely I may never ski down that special place in the future.
Thank God, they didn’t install a lift on top of that peak (one of my old, highly questionable wish!)
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