For most skiers, a day out on the slopes is a pleasant way to forget about the qualms of daily life and enjoy themselves while trying to stay upright and making it to the Apres-Ski bar in one piece.
However, for others, if they encounter the wrong skier it can quickly ruin their day.
With ski season now in full swing, run-ins with nightmare snow sport enthusiasts are a common occurrence.
From disagreements over ‘s**t technique’, to threats of breaking limbs, and even violent brawls over queue jumpers, here are just a few of the ugly scenes captured on the slopes in recent years.
Female skier stops to rant at fellow Brits halfway down French slope
In this astonishing clip a female skier stopped to rant at fellow Britons for their ‘s**t’ technique and ‘toilet seat posture’
The blonde woman confronted Daniel Keating and Tom Earing after they had just fallen over on a slope in Val d’Isere, in the French Alps
In this astonishing clip a female skier stopped to rant at fellow Britons for their ‘s**t’ technique and ‘toilet seat posture’.
The blonde woman confronted Daniel Keating and Tom Earing after they had just fallen over on a slope in Val d’Isere, in the French Alps.
Bodycam footage, shot on January 15, shows the woman wearing a blue jacket and turquoise helmet berating them, labelling them ‘totally s**t skiers with toilet seat posture’ and ‘f**king dangerous to other people’.
She goes on to say ‘if you want to go to hospital, be my guest, but you can’t ski like that’ before briefly calming down to thank the stunned pair for ‘taking the bo***cking so nicely’.
The woman says she ‘isn’t surprised’ Dan and Tom, both 19, fell over because ‘you’re f**king s**t’ and even suggests they take lessons.
As she skis away with her companion, she squats down to mimic sitting on a toilet seat before marketing worker Tom tells her ‘on your bike, see you in a bit’.
Amateur boxer Dan has since revealed he thought the lady was ‘full of herself’ and that ‘she made a fool of herself on her own’.
He says the pair’s technique ‘isn’t ‘s**t’ but admits they were ‘messing around’ on the red slope [medium difficulty] when they fell over and a member of their skiing party may have veered closely to someone on the way down.
The video has been viewed more than 2.7million times with users split over whether they liked the furious woman’s approach to the confrontation or not.
Dan, from Sevenoaks, Kent, said: ‘We’ve laughed so much at it. She’s just given us a viral video for nothing.’
Man threatens to break a fellow skier’s arm during an expletive laden rant
In an altercation on a snowy slope, a man was filmed shouting at a pair of skiers. He can be heard saying, ‘My son has a broken arm and we are skiing carefully so f*** off’
The man continues to argue with the pair as one of them goads the angry father by telling him ‘thank you’ and wishing him a very nice trip
In an altercation on a snowy slope, a man was filmed shouting at a pair of skiers.
He can be heard saying, ‘My son has a broken arm and we are skiing carefully so f*** off.’
One of the other skiers then goads the angry father by telling him ‘thank you’ and wishing him a very nice trip.
In response the father said: ‘We are trying to rescue our f***ing son you d***head.’
Unfazed by the rant, the man continues to goad him by telling him to enjoy his holiday.
To which he swears again and shuffles towards the skiers and gestures at the pair with his ski poles.
Before the disagreement can escalate the man abruptly ends the argument and continues down the slope.
Skier involved in a punch up with a snowboarder only to be taken out by multiple others moments later
In the video, filmed on the Mount Rose ski resort in Nevada, the two people can be seen have a disagreement under a ski lift as shocked onlookers watch on
All of a sudden, seemingly out of nowhere, the skier gets knocked off his feet when another snowboarder comes careering into view before they collide into the skier.
A skier crashed into a snowboarder before he gets taken out by multiple snowboards moments later.
In the video, filmed on the Mount Rose ski resort in Nevada, the two people can be seen have a disagreement under a ski lift as shocked onlookers watch on.
After the snowboarder appears to grab at his leg the skier starts to hit the snowboarder with his ski pole while shouting at them.
All of a sudden, seemingly out of nowhere, the skier gets knocked off his feet when another snowboarder comes careering into view before they collide into the skier.
The two then start brawling in the snow before another skier breaks up the altercation.
The snowboarder, unfazed, starts goading the skier shouting: ‘What you going to do about it b****?’
However the before the skier can respond ,in near perfect comedic timing, yet another snowboarder crashes into him before the video abruptly ends.
Massive brawl breaks out on ski slope over queue cutting
The video cuts to show, what appears to be a mass brawl, involving at least half a dozen other snow sport enthusiasts
They are clamouring on top of each other as they tussle in the snow close to the ski lift. Meanwhile shocked onlookers watch on, aghast at the chaotic scenes unfolding in front of them
A massive brawl broke out on a ski slope after people were accused of cutting the queue.
In the shocking clip, a group of people can be seen fighting as they launch punches at one and other. One them even loses their snowboard which slides down the slope as if it has a life of its own.
The video then cuts to show, what appears to be a mass brawl, involving the same people from earlier and at least half a dozen other snow sport enthusiasts.
They are clamouring on top of each other as they tussle in the snow close to the ski lift. Meanwhile shocked onlookers watch on, aghast at the chaotic scenes unfolding in front of them.
Eventually, other people and a man who appears to be a medic rush over to break up the fight.
