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Kitty and Matty look on with undisguised pleasure; my 10-year-old twins are new to this but, as it\u2019s my third time, they think I should be borderline professional. No matter that I was a carefree, indestructible youth when I last went skiing. Or that I\u2019m now a\",\"\u00a0\",\"very destructible, 50-year-old father.\"]},{\"type\":\"p\",\"content\":[\"My return to the slopes comes after a 35-year hiatus, with the stiffer sinews of middle age and a gammy right knee. 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Still, the support had done its job, cocooning my leg snugly while I snow-ploughed awkwardly down a beginners\u2019 slope, arms wide as if offering everyone a hug. All the while, I\u2019d provided my own brand of support, calling out useful tips to my family when they collapsed this way and that like felled trees. \u201cWe already have an instructor, thanks,\u201d said a blushing Monika, as the dashing Peter Dorult\u00e1n helped her up once more.\"]},{\"type\":\"p\",\"content\":[\"On day two, Peter decided we were ready to brave a proper slope called Cr\u00eates. \u201cIt\u2019s officially a blue, but really it\u2019s like a green,\u201d he had reassured us as the Diable chairlift floated up the mountainside. The air had that snow-muffled quality, so still and silent that it rang in my ears, but the calm was short-lived. Kitty lost her balance as she exited the lift, Monika skied into her and Matty fell on top of them both. 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Newly unveiled in 2024, the Jandri Express gondola is worth a ride in its own right; it carries passengers from the heart of the resort to the Jandri mountain peak at 3,200m in just 17 minutes \u2014 the journey used to take 40 \u2014 each one filled with glorious overviews of snow-burdened pines, lonely crows and ant-like skiers moving in snaking lines down the mountainsides.\"]},{\"type\":\"p\",\"content\":[\"From there, we board a funicular for a rattling trip along a two-mile wormhole through the mountain rock to a point called Puy Sali\u00e9. Here, there\u2019s an ice cave complete with chiselled sculptures of woolly mammoths, and a platform serving another helping of Alpine landscapes, including a cloudy peak called Barre des \u00c9crins \u2014 once France\u2019s highest, until Napoleon nabbed Mont Blanc from the Italians. 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