Ski Mountain Creative Writing
It was a cold, bitter, sunny morning mid January. The previous night's snowstorm had given hell, twenty-four new untouched inches were left on the ski mountain waiting for my friends and I. As the doors of the gondola close, an abundance of fog disrupted our vision. The doors opened once again after what felt like a lifetime.
There we stood, looking down to the end of the run as we began to slowly make our way through the remarkably light powder. The snow was heavily up until a single patch of ice that was untouched from snow. We carefully skied through the ice until we spotted a single ski sticking out of the snow. My friends looked at me from across the ski run as if they knew something I didn’t.
Curiousity got to the best of me. I struggled …show more content…
Over the sound of the music playing through the headphones in my helmet I heard a loud rumbling, as if I was surrounded by rattlesnakes. I look around and see nothing out of the ordinary. However, up in the sky was a flight for life helicopter quickly moving towards the top of the mountain. We knew why it was there, we prayed that the man would be okay.
The next two days went by slow, not hearing a word from anyone about what had exactly happened. Finally, the next day I open up the Steamboat paper only to see the headline “73 Year-old Man Dies on Ski Mountain”. My heart dropped, although I hadn’t known this man personally I felt as if in someway I did. Apparently this man had a heart attack while skiing and then tumbled down the hill where he eventually passed away. Ski patrol had tried their best to save his life but at the end of the day was unsuccessful.
Experiencing this truly changed the way I look at the world today. This was the first time I actually experienced the death of a person. Although I didn’t know this man he still managed to teach me a very important life lesson. The lesson I learned is that you never know if you have a tomorrow, today is a blessing, so you should spend it doing what you love with who you love. It’s sad that it took someone dying for me to realize this, but from that point on I have looked at life with a whole different
There we stood, looking down to the end of the run as we began to slowly make our way through the remarkably light powder. The snow was heavily up until a single patch of ice that was untouched from snow. We carefully skied through the ice until we spotted a single ski sticking out of the snow. My friends looked at me from across the ski run as if they knew something I didn’t.
Curiousity got to the best of me. I struggled …show more content…
Over the sound of the music playing through the headphones in my helmet I heard a loud rumbling, as if I was surrounded by rattlesnakes. I look around and see nothing out of the ordinary. However, up in the sky was a flight for life helicopter quickly moving towards the top of the mountain. We knew why it was there, we prayed that the man would be okay.
The next two days went by slow, not hearing a word from anyone about what had exactly happened. Finally, the next day I open up the Steamboat paper only to see the headline “73 Year-old Man Dies on Ski Mountain”. My heart dropped, although I hadn’t known this man personally I felt as if in someway I did. Apparently this man had a heart attack while skiing and then tumbled down the hill where he eventually passed away. Ski patrol had tried their best to save his life but at the end of the day was unsuccessful.
Experiencing this truly changed the way I look at the world today. This was the first time I actually experienced the death of a person. Although I didn’t know this man he still managed to teach me a very important life lesson. The lesson I learned is that you never know if you have a tomorrow, today is a blessing, so you should spend it doing what you love with who you love. It’s sad that it took someone dying for me to realize this, but from that point on I have looked at life with a whole different