Speed Demons: Skiing Down The Slopes Of The Inferno

Dropping over the crest, I pick up speed, skis clattering down the hard, compact snow in my defensive Arlberg crouch. The name’s Bond - that’s the name of this run - a brusque black above Mürren in the Bernese Alps, where they filmed ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ and host the world’s longest downhill ski race.

‘Dignitas would be easier’, suggested my mate Beesley, when I told him the wife and I were travelling to Switzerland to race the Inferno. He did have a point. Just getting to Mürren involved a flight to Zurich, several trains, a bus to Stechelberg, and then the world’s steepest cable car.