'It's just embarrassing': Novak Djokovic's Coach Andy Murray Survives a Scary Skiing Misadventure

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Andy Murray in the frame.
Andy Murray in the frame.

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Andy Murray recently joined the coaching set up of Novak Djokovic.

Andy Murray is a 3-time Grand Slam winner.

3-time Grand Slam winner, Andy Murray's skiing adventure turned into misadventure recently and eventually had to be rescued by Snowmobile from a mountain.

The double Olympic Gold medalist narrated the entire episode.

Murray said: 'The first two days were shocking. I couldn't get off the ski lifts.

'My wife refused to go on the ski lifts with me because it's just embarrassing isn't it. I just couldn't get off, so I was having to go on with strangers who were having to lift me up.

'The first day I got stuck up the mountain.

'At the end of the day we were on like a beginners' slope. The ski lift to take you back up to the top was closing and there was another one further down the hill and me and my brother-in-law were like 'Let's go a little bit further and we'll just go up the other ski lift'.

'So we went down the mountain a little bit. And I can't ski - I don't know how to stop at this stage.
'We'd been like literally on a beginner green slope and once you got past that bit it went on to blues and reds.

'We went probably 400, 500m down the slope, got to where the ski lift was and the ski lift had shut. The guy who was operating it said the only way to get down now was you have to get down the mountain.

'I was like 'Ok, I can't ski'. He was like 'you should have gone up when you were told it was closing'.

'We asked him how far it was, and he said 'It's about 3km to the bottom'. It's late in the day, it gets icy as well, it's harder.

'I had no idea how to stop, so had basically gone about 500m, narrow slope, and I'm like 'If I try to turn I'm going off the side here'.

'So I'm basically going straight down. I've gone past my brother and I'm shouting 'I'm in trouble here, I don't know how to stop'.


'I've just thrown myself on the ground and then I start trying to go down on my arse, which I couldn't really do, and got to a restaurant eventually.

'Having picked up the skis I'm now walking, and had to get rescued on one of those skidoos.


'The rescue team are snapping because usually it's like drunk British people at the end of the day that's got stuck up the mountain. That's not really their job - they're there to help people that are injured rather than some idiot that thought they can get down the slope late in the day.
'That was a bit embarrassing.'

But he added on the Sporting Misadventures podcast: 'By the end I got quite into it and enjoyed it and we're going to go again in April.'