How Miss Scaredy-Cat Found Her Ski Legs ; Imogen Stubbs Sees Her Friend (Fortified by Calvados) Finally Conquer Her Fears On La Plagne's Brilliant Novice-Friendly Slopes [Eire Region]

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For more than 20 years, I have travelled round the world with actress Serena Gordon - as friends, and as travel writer and photographer respectively. We have been in white-water dinghies, kayaks, sailing boats, bush planes and dilapidated Jeeps, on camels, motorbikes, DIY timber rafts and stallions. Serena has never been anything less than undauntable and undaunted.

There is only one form of transport that has completely eluded her: skiing. For some reason, strap-ping two planks to her feet and launching down a frozen, perpendicular slope doesn't appeal to her. At all. In fact, the thought of it brings on a panic attack with a large dose of hysteria, paranoia and vertigo thrown in. Mind you, this is a girl who gets vertigo wearing stilettos.

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How Miss Scaredy-Cat Found Her Ski Legs ; Imogen Stubbs Sees Her Friend (Fortified by Calvados) Finally Conquer Her Fears On La Plagne's Brilliant Novice-Friendly Slopes [Eire Region]

Her failure to warm to skiing has not been for want of trying. I love skiing and have had a vested interest in wanting her to share the joy because we have children the same age who love it, and she is usually great fun on a trip. Usually.

I had a French boyfriend about 20 years ago who was a superb skier and he guaranteed that he could teach Serena in a morning. I met up with them at noon, eager to witness the results.

I found Serena slumped over her ski sticks in floods of tears looking like a new-born calf incapable of...

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