Walters had always had a fascination with skiing, even though he was born in Kuwait, a place “as snow less as you can get”. He and his wife moved to a Scottish island 25 years ago and bought a run-down hotel, which they run as a self-catered (不包餐的) holiday house. Handing over the keys to guests on a Friday, Walters said, “We’re retired, and it gives me more time to do the things I want to do”.

It’s why Walters thought he might enjoy teaching people to ski. He had, after all, enjoyed the bread-making classes he used to run. “I like teaching people things,” he says.

Walters first skied at 11 on a school trip to Austria. “We were allowed to go up the mountain on the second day and I remember, with a friend, being so scared of skiing down that we actually walked down,” he says. Yet it didn’t put him off. Their teacher started organizing Sunday trips to Glenshee, the skiing area in the Highlands, and Walters became part of the school’s ski team.

Once he had taken the week-long instructor course in the Cairngorms — followed by further training — he wasn’t sure there would be an easy route into work. Then he spotted a request on Face book from a company that teaches children to ski, for someone to replace one of their instructors who had injured herself. Three days later, Walters arrived in Switzerland. “I was thinking: ‘This is going to be awful, because I’ll be this old guy,’” he says. But he wasn’t even the oldest instructor — there was one in his early 7 as. It went so well that, by the second day, his group of 11 and 12-year-olds were skiing down easy runs.

He now regularly works with the company, teaching groups of children during their school holidays. Walters spends most of his time dealing with beginners skiing fairly slowly. He isn’t trying to teach them to go as fast as possible — he’s trying to teach them how to ski with control, reduce speed, and get down the mountain without killing themselves.” He has just taken a further qualification as a ski instructor, reaching a level that enabled him to teach almost anywhere.

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