Her jaw was clenched, her brow furrowed and a nib of pink tongue was emerging from the corner of her mouth. Even from the comfort of the warm alpine café, I could see my daughter concentrating hard not to fall over. Just like any other day, really, only this time she was on skis.

Born nine weeks early, Nancy was diagnosed with hemiplegic cerebral palsy at 18 months. She took her first steps the summer she turned four, was horse-riding at five and now, at the grand age of seven, was taking to the slopes for the first time. She’s nothing if not determined.

After a remarkably straightforward flight from London, we reached the beautiful resort of Villars-sur-Ollon in the Swiss canton of Vaud, a small, family-friendly resort just 90 minutes from Geneva airport. With snowy fir trees twinkling in the sun, and a swathe of snow-draped chalets diminishing in size like pine matryoshka dolls, quaint doesn’t come close to describing it.

While Villars (pictured below) is renowned as the home of the world’s most expensive boarding schools, it has also recently gained a reputation as the place for disabled skiing – and it can offer nearly 80 miles of wide pistes suitable for beginners and intermediate skiers, plus access to the Les Diablerets glacier at 3,000m for those made of sterner stuff. Its accessibility and disabled-friendly facilities made it ideal for my daughter’s first ski trip.

Source:  Telegraph

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