I’ve broken a couple of bones in a wrist but friend of mine smashed his heel and had to have it screwed back together.  

I smashed my head into a rock. Survived but cant remember anything before it happened. Apparently i was an F1 driver, which is pretty neat. 

Couple of ribs when I trapped the pole handle under me and a very heavy concussion (like you, no helmet). I was out cold with the concussion but shook it off, and went and got smashedater that day.

Really should have paid more attention to that and other sporting concussions but no one really thought it was harmful in the old days.

Slipped a disc in big crash once too, but managed to get home and it recovered by itself (diagnosis came on return to UK)

The worst accident you can have apart from breaking your spine or your skull, is breaking your leg at the top of your ski boot. That is fooking disgusting as it usually results from your leg creating a new inverse knee joint there. Gross. And apparently quite painful too!

I wasn’t out cold AmI. Apparently i got straight back up. The ski patrol came straight in and asked me a load of questions which i answered very poorly. Can’t remember the fall or the 10min question and answer session. First thing i remember is patrol saying hes got first degree concussion on the radio to his mate we are taking him off the mountain. I went down in a stretcher behind a skier who never turned. No after effects to my knowledge bar six stitches inside my mouth.

I once had to spend 6 weeks babysitting a complete hospital pass of a deal, including 2 2 day meetings in fvcking Dublin, when a cvnting colleague fell over on the slopes and broke something 

I’m still bitter

Those guys that bring the blood wagons down are very impressive skiers tbf. 

Actually I do know a guy who dislocated both shoulders at the same time and ended up back home in his 20’s having his bum wiped by his mum.

Torn rear cruciate and meniscus

skied on for 3 days

very stupid

I once accidentally went skiing then realised I'm not a posho, so instantly hated it.

Hyperextended elbo resulting in some nasty soft tissue damage that stopped my arm from moving for a few weeks. 

Cracked a couple of ribs slipping on ice and landing on my helmet, which was clipped on to my backpack. I was a few drinks in so the damage wasn't apparent until the next day. Still managed to do a bit of tender skiing with that one. 

When I was working in the Alps the most common injury was broken wrists on intermediate snowboarders who weren't wearing wrist guards. 

Spilled my hot chocolate laced with rum

I was gutted

I now have chair lift phobia and actually feel sad when I type the word chair lift. One of those with a foot gap between bottom feet rail and snow. Grabbed by co-rider and fell. Although I blame the chair lift, real culprit was the ski; did not come off as my leg twisted. Tendons torn and unable to walk for six weeks. “Classic footballers injury” I was told by a taxi driver. 

Mate of mine fell 10 metres on to his head while boarding, broke his back in nine places, including at L1, leaving him permanently paralysed below the waist.

On the upside, he became a paralympic boarder, so hooray for him.

Mr m cracked his head in cyprus skiing with the army. No helmets in those days. Before I met him. He is deaf in one ear (useful in a marriage); can’t put his head under the water and has a strange shoulder joint,

Pretty brave going on holiday to Europe when it’s about to melt in the nuclear heat of World War III.

I once flipped myself into the air and managed to land with my whole body weight on my thumb, twisting it right back. It wasn’t right for months.

That was snowboarding. My two weeks’ experience of it convinced me snowboarding is shite. Certainly, it isn’t for pistes.

Worst was breaking several bones in my wrist snowboarding. It is worth noting that I was a decent snowboarded and was wearing wrist guards. The impact was just that hard. The wrist had to be glued, wired and screwed back together. I still have a screw in it now over 15 years later and there is some loss of flex. Still hasn't put me off. My reaction was to buy a faster snowboard. Not really had anything major skiing. Bit concerned about the state of my aging knees but that is about it.

Worst things I have seen include when I was working in the alps someone I was guiding collided into a snowboarder (the skier's fault) smacked her head of the ground, I had to call out the patrol, who then called the helo and she spent a week in an induced coma. She was not wearing a helmet. Earlier that morning I had been extolling the virtues of wearing one to her.

The absolute worst I have seen was someone who was foolishly hanging around standing midslope, below the blind crest of a roller. Someone came over the crest at some speed and their ski hit the person's thankfully helmeted head. Even though helmeted there he was out, patrolled called and helo, lot of blood everywhere. No idea if the guy survived. Something like that could lead easily be serious head and/or neck injury. And that is why you do not stand around in such places and if I see someone doing it I encourage them to move.

This does not include my narrowly avoiding an avalanche that did kill someone and knowing people that have been killed in other avalanches.

Gee, thanks for all of this. This just confirms my view that skiing is a poor way of getting your adrenaline fix.

I have been Kung Fu sparring for 8 years. I am 5,7 (meaning getting kicked in the head is a distinct possibility against most people I spar with), and the worst I have had are a few dislocated jaws and bloody noses - no permanent damage whatsoever.

I once ski'd past a young teen who had fallen over and his femur was sticking out of his trousers

Good of you to stop and help