Most Swiss skiers exceed 50km/h

Three out of four Swiss skiers travel at over 50km/h, and one in five even tops out at over 70km/h, according to a study by the Swiss Accident Insurance Fund (SUVA). Speed on the slopes has increased in recent years. “My daughter Norah was mown down by a skier. He was going much too fast,” Benoît Pythoud lost his daughter in a skiing collision. It was in March 2017 in the family resort of Les Mosses. Norah was six years old. A teenager hit her at full speed on a beginners’ slope. “Time has passed, but it’s hard for me to forgive that teenager. He should never have taken so many risks,” Pythoud told Swiss public television RTS’s Mise au point programme on Sunday. “You can see that a lot of skiers go too fast. They overestimate their ability to brake,” he said. + Swiss slope accidents cost CHF600 million annually SUVA agrees. The insurance company conducted a study into speed using its Slope Track application, downloaded by tens of thousands of skiers. It measured almost 400,000...