The ski racer working on a construction site
(CNN)When the snow melts, when fields of white turn luscious green leaving no remnants of winter behind, Harry Laidlaw will leave Europe and return to Australia.
The 23-year-old dreams of being like the rest of the world’s elite skiers, of following the snow all year round. But financial constraints mean that after spending the last seven months flying down colossal mountains, the Alpine skier must head home, to live with his parents and work on a construction site.
His sole aim will be to earn enough money so that he can slip into his ski boots and hurtle down the slopes when winter returns to Europe’s peaks and, just perhaps, become his country’s finest skiing export.
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