Category Archives: Ira D. Riklis

Ira Riklis discusses the seemingly lost art of courtesy on the ski slopes When you consider the number of skiers and snowboarders on the slope at the same time, many traveling at high speed (myself included), it’s remarkable that people … Continue reading →

Continuing with the saga of Ira Riklis’ broken leg: Once I got home, taken to NYU Medical, and placed comfortably in a bed with my leg elevated, I was told that my leg was not healing well and they would … Continue reading →

Continuing with the saga of Ira Riklis’ broken leg: Getting home was quite a trick too. My father made some wonderful arrangements, but it still managed to go awry. I was taken by ambulance (very comfortably) down to Geneva where … Continue reading →

Another look at Courchevel. Photo courtesy Ira Riklis.

A spot that, as Ira found out, if you have to break your leg, is a beautiful place to do it.

Going to the hospital in Megeve was quite an experience for a young American that didn’t speak much French. While I waited in the hospital hallway, on a gurney, to be taken to surgery, my sister had to hold my … Continue reading →

The saga continues … When I broke my leg, I was skiing for the first time, and the last time, in Europe. Courcheval was, and I presume still is, a marvelously beautiful setting with a charming town and a magnificent … Continue reading →

It should come as no surprise to anyone that skiing is an intrinsically dangerous sport. I myself have suffered numerous injuries, the most serious of which was, as mentioned above, that I broke both my tibia and fibula on my … Continue reading →

Continuing with Ira Riklis‘ interview on Vail and the skiing scene: There is one last trick to this method, where you do your skiing. The method we use is to take the VistaBahn out of Vail Village to the Mid-Vail … Continue reading →

We start our day at 8:00 am putting on our equipment at the lifts. We are on the first chairs at 8:15 am, sometimes the actual first chair of skiers for the day (but we are never very far behind … Continue reading →