Ice and snow sports in literature

When it comes to the ice and snow sports in literature, the first thing that comes to mind is probably the famous American "tough guy" writer Hemingway. He seems to have always had a crush on the world of ice and snow. As early as the mid-1920s, Hemingway spent two winters in the snowy Montafon in Vorarlberg, Austria, which greatly satisfied his desire for alpine exploration. He and his friends followed ski instructor Walter Rentt on a tour of Silverretta and tried daring downhill skiing several times. It was probably the winter inspiration of this Alpine that gave hemingway's later creations extraordinary impetus. In his famous work "The Snow of Kilimanjaro", he reminds the dying person of the ski scene: "Their big skiing, from there, all the way to the big slope of the glacier above the 'House of Mednar', the snow seemed smooth like frosting on a cake, as soft as powder, and he remembered the silent slide, so fast that you fell like a bird from the sky." "When it comes to skiing, we can also think of the novel "Lin Hai Snow Field". In Qu Bo's red classic work, there is an interesting chapter of "practicing martial arts hard, skiing and flying mountains". In this chapter, for the sake of the battle, the squad led by the 203 chief Shao Jianbo began the feat of "further making friends with Daiyuki". For them, this "new struggle" task is to practice the skiing skill, which Shao Jianbo regards as the key to the success or failure of their Forest Sea Snow Bandits. In order to complete this arduous task, he took the lead and led by example, becoming a model warrior in the hard training of fierceness, speed and skill. After ten days of hard training, the other fighters of the squad were no longer hercules with two legs pulling snow pits, but became "martial artists" flying on the snow. They have successfully turned the snow field into a car road, into a train track, into an ocean of destroyers, into the sky where planes fly, and this undoubtedly laid a solid foundation for the final victory of the Great Cause of The Forest Sea Snow Plains.

Source: Guangming Daily