Broken limbs, sheer drops, the potential for avalanches. Is going away on a ski holiday asking for trouble, or are the dangers actually fairly minimal?

Any sport will have dangers associated with it. People can be seriously injured taking part in table tennis, and yet people would never consider avoiding such a sport due to its risks. Skiing is actually a very safe sport when compared to other extreme sports and even safe compared to the likes of football and boxing. 0.69 fatalities occur per million skiers each year making the odds of anything terrible happening to you quite literally and significantly less than one in a million. Furthermore, many of the accidents that do happen are due to lack of training or poor equipment.

Therefore, whilst skiing is very safe anyway, with the right training and the right equipment it will be extremely safe indeed. The chances of being injured in a game of rugby is far higher than the chances of being injured during a session of skiing, and the dangers associated with skiing are falling all the time as technology improves equipment and allows individuals to better anticipate adverse weather.

For those who have avoided skiing in the past due to worries about safety, taking to the slopes is pretty much what you make of it. By going on a skiing holiday and receiving intensive training with high quality equipment, you will be extremely unlikely to encounter any sort of injury, and by ensuring that you are conscious of your safety rather than pushing yourself too far, the chances will decrease even more.

The most common injuries are not broken bones or head injuries, but instead bumps and grazes, and therefore skiing will be safer than the majority of other sports, just so long as you are trained in the correct way and are always conscious of your own safety on the slopes.

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