Skiing is the sport that can perhaps provide a greater sense of freedom than any other. A new charity aims to give that fun and exhilaration to wounded former soldiers. ‘When I saw a video of him skiing, I could see that the joy had come back into his life,' says the mother of a soldier who lost a leg. Others testify to coming off the slopes in a completely different frame of mind or to improving their core strength after a spinal injury.
Skiing with Heroes is the idea of Gilly Norton, who owns a chalet in Klosters and who was inspired by the Walking with Wounded trip to the North Pole last year. The charity, launched this month, is seeking ‘ski buddies' to help take a group of veterans to Klosters in March for a week of adaptive skiing.
Chaired by Lord Glentoran, an Olympic bobsleigh gold medallist in 1964, Skiing with Heroes aims to raise £250,000 in its first year. To apply, or to donate, visit www.skiingwithheroes.com
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'The whole house shook. Everything was white. For four months, it felt as if we were on Mars': The story behind one of Hampshire's most breathtaking gardensWhen Kim Wilkie sculpted a tiered grass amphitheatre behind this 17th-century house, the garden finally settled into place, as Non Morris discovers.
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'I have lost a treasure, such a sister, such a friend as never can have been surpassed': Inside Jane Austen's Winchester home, the house where she penned her final words and drew her final breathJane Austen spent the last days of her life in rented lodgings in Winchester, Hampshire. Adam Rattray describes the remarkable recent discoveries made about the house in which she died.
