Matthew on his way up the travelator on the nursery slopes (this was his third day)

Matthew going up travelator in Wengen ski school. Much easier and safer than any other sort of ski lift for little ones.
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Matthew about to come down the nursery slopes in a nice snowplough

Matthew practising his snowplough turns in ski school. It was only his third day of lessons (Tuesday), and snow was falling making it deeper than usual, so falling over isn't too surprising! It's very soft though.
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More practising snowplough turns on Tuesday. For Matthew, snowplough turns involved hands on knees and "making pizza wedges".

You can see there was plenty of snow falling this day, making it quite deep and so harder to turn; and hence Matthew saying "Stupid skis!" at the end!
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More practice on third day of skiing. As you can see from him shuffling along, the nursery slopes aren't steep!
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More practising snowploughs.

After his first day of lessons, on being asked what he learnt in ski school he said "I learnt that skiing is harder than it looks"!
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Yet more snowploughs. You can hear Anya, Matthew's instructor telling him to make a bigger snowplough. Vicky was able to spend so much time here as she wasn't keen on skiing that day with the poor light.
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Snowli, the Swiss ski school mascot

Snowli was very popular with the children

Matthew and Snowli

The ski school class head up the travelator. Matthew is stooping to pick up some snow!