Danny, the more you relate of your "jolly" at the RAF Ski School, the more I suspect that it was in reality a Winter Survival School! Could it be that "they", having moved everyone out to the Far East and seeing that requirement end unexpectedly , now planned moving them all back again to the European Theatre for the probable next fixture as predicted by Churchill at Fulton Missouri? Fanciful perhaps, but how else can we explain the dreadful ordeals that were visited upon you at an alleged recreational facility? I suspect that the Iron Curtain might have cast its shadow over Gulmarg, half a world away. On the other hand of course, it might just be yet another example of the seriousness with which the British have always taken their leisure pursuits!