“After a Japanese breakfast made of poached eggs, miso soup, prawn fritters, rice and fruit, we took a little chairlift up into the Myoko forest.

Japanese snow is so different to that in Europe. It’s so much lighter and floatier – and there’s always so much of it.

60cm had fallen the night before – and it was still falling. After just four runs, we returned to the same spot and our tracks were already covered.”