How dangerous are snow sports in general?
I don’t personally regard snow sports in general as “dangerous sports” at all and I don’t think you should either – I hope once you have read through this website you will agree! For a start, the overall injury risk combining all the snow sports is about 0.2-0.4%. In simple terms, this means that for every 1000 people skiing or snowboarding in a day, on average between 2 and 4 will require medical attention. This is really very low and a tribute to the work of many people in the ski injury field including researchers, equipment manufacturers, ski instructors and staff at the ski areas themselves. If you’re still not convinced, think of an average game of football (soccer) – usually 2 or 3 players end up with an injury at the end of the game (which only lasts 90 mins!) – i.e. 3/22 or 14% compared to 0.4% for snow sports. So if you think snow sports are dangerous then according to the statistics football must be positively suicidal!!
