The number one sport for masochists

I have now been to the Alps.I have now been skiing.I have now been skiing in the Alps.I have now learned how to walk as if I had no ankles.I now have a sunburned face thanks to stupidity and a giant bloody blister under the nail on my right big toe thanks to rental boots being a tad too small.I now have a bruise the diameter of your average orange on each hip.I now have a very large repertoire of ways to fall down a mountain and a very small repertoire of ways to avoid doing that.I have now set a new record for the most number of times I've seriously feared for my safety in a three day period.I have now been twenty yards away from a helicopter as it lands on a ski slope to pick somebody up and fly them to the hospital.I now have a very large desire to go skiing again, which will probably not be satisfied until next winter, unfortunately.But, I still can't understand more than two consecutive words of the Austrian dialect.