The spectacle of a someone diving for cover from an out of control skier on the piste is a pretty familiar one. It could be youthful high-jinx, an adrenalin-rushing speed skiing junkie may be trying to beat his best speed on his GPS app or simply someone worse for wear after way too much schnapps in their chalet. Today research by MORE TH>N Travel revealed these are all factors why British skiers say ‘speed skiing’ is a danger and they want something done about it. In fact, some people are livid about it!

Feelings are so strong that many Brits heading abroad this season would like to see the sort of deterrents and punishments applied to the slopes as we see on our roads – including speed cameras, fines and bans. As for safety, our research revealed a split on ski helmets: almost half of skiers wear them and think they should be compulsory; the other half, well, helmets just just cramp their style, dude. The story has been covered today by The Daily Mail, The Sun, Metro, Daily Telegraph Travel created something of a stir and reopened debate in the online skiing community and travel sites about safety, aggressive skiers and we’ve gone thrown speed cameras into it for the first time for good measure.