Hell in the Alps, Ander Ortiz - Heaven & Hell (sitios de interés)
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The story I’m about to tell occurred two years ago in Alpe d’Huez, a French town in the Alps. It was the first time there for my parents, my brother and me. Our plan was to have a nice time enjoying the snowy mountains and the ski, but our vacations, early became a real hell on Earth.It was the first night of the year 2011 when we arrived to the hotel. It was a fine place and we were very excited about what the receptionist had told us. He said that there was a lot of snow, and that the weather forecast said it was going to be a perfect sunny day for skiing. So, the next morning, we wore our ski boots and started enjoying the day.
The first two hours had been amazing, but suddenly, the weather changed and a hard wind started so, the fog flooded all the mountain. I couldn’t see anything farther than two or three meters and I soon got lost.
I was alone in the middle of a blizzard and I had a boot full of snow, so, I started to feel very cold. I felt very scared, but I decided to go down the mountain slowly, because I knew that in lower altitude, there wasn’t going to be so much fog. My descent lasted 10 minutes, because when the fog disappeared I saw a little town, a town I couldn’t recognize.
It seemed that I arrived there by skiing off piste, and of course, my parents weren’t there. Furthermore, I was feeling a terrible pain in my left foot and, in addition, I had lost my mobile phone somewhere in the mountain.
I went to the police station in the town and they brought me to the hospital because I had my feet completely frozen. My parents went there half an hour later, because policemen had warned them.
That’s how I lost one finger in my left foot and why that mountain became a hell for me that day. I felt very scared that day, but, I also understood how important it is to be aware of the mountain, because it can be very dangerous.