Andy Murray had a disastrous first attempt at skiing whilst on holiday with his family and eventually had to be rescued by Mountain Rescue as he was stranded up a snowy mountain.
Andy Murray has revealed he had to be rescued from the top of a mountain after a terrifying skiing mishap.
The tennis legend opened up on Sir Chris Hoy’s podcast, Sporting Misadventures, about the skiing incident expressing how it was completely “embarrassing” for him.
The Scots star hung up his racket for the final time after the Paris Olympics last summer, and has been trying out new sporting hobbies to take up his time.
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Since then, Andy has tried his hand at golf and more recently skiing.
The 37-year-old recently hit the Swiss Alps with his wife Kim, their four children and in-laws at the start of the year, and the trip was anything but smooth sailing.
Speaking to Sir Chris Hoy, Andy revealed that the first few days were a disaster, he said: “The first two days were shocking. I couldn’t get off the ski lift, I couldn’t get up. My wife refused to go on the ski lift with me because its just embarrassing isn’t it.”
He then went on to confess that him and his brother-in-law had gotten stuck up a mountain on the first day of the trip, stating: “We were on a beginner slope and the ski lift to take you back up to the top was closing.
“There was another one slightly further down the hill and me and my brother in law were like lets go a little bit further and we will just go up the other ski lift.”
The pair had been on the beginner slopes all day, trying to get to grips with his new found hobby. But as soon as they got to the other ski lift, they were shocked to see that ski lift was closed too.
He shared: “The guy who was operating it was like the only way to get down now is you have to go down the mountain.”
“I was like I cant ski and he was like well you should have gone up when it was closing.”
The star gave Chris Hoy a good laugh when he shared that he was shouting his way down the mountain, saying: “So am basically just going straight down the mountain and I’ve gone passed my brother in law, who can ski a little bit, and I’m just shouting I’m in trouble here I don’t know how to stop Im in trouble here.”
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Andy confessed he was not great at skiing with a holiday horror to prove it (Image: X)
Andy admitted he had given up and threw himself to the ground and continued to go down on his “a**e” before he reached a restaurant and was saved by the Mountain Rescue Team.
“I had to get rescued on one of those Ski-Doos. The rescue team are snapping because usually it’s drunk British people at the end of the day that have got stuck up the mountain and thats not really their job, they’re there to help people who are injured and hurt,” he continued.
“Rather than just some idiot who thought they could get down the slope and that was pretty embarrassing.”
Although the first day mishap did not put Andy off from skiing, as he eventually got a hang of the sport and by the end of the trip he “really enjoyed it.”
Admitting to Sir Chris Hoy that he cant wait to go back again with his family in the spring.