Winter in the Swiss Alps. I was nineteen years old and I rode the ski lift to the top. While attempting to snow plow, I realized several things: I didn’t know how to ski,, I was not dressed for the occasion and, oh, look, a European ski team was racing downhill headed directly toward me.

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Engineer extraordinaire Ricardo GutiierrezGraphics by Cathy James and Anni PoppenMusic by Fred Cassidy