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High life

The joys of social isolation

21 March 2020

9:00 AM

21 March 2020

9:00 AM

No use datelining any more, I’m here for the duration. Even the ski lifts have been ordered to close: chiuso, geschlossen, fermé. The only way to ski now is the old-fashioned way, à laHemingway: climb up with skins, peel them off, and enjoy the one and only run of the day.

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