‘I’m in trouble’ – Andy Murray had to be rescued from a mountain in skiing emergency

Andy Murray’s incredible athletic talent seems to be confined to the tennis court if his recent skiing holiday is anything to go by. 

During a recent episode of the Sporting Misadventures podcast, the British legend openly shared that he found himself in quite a predicament when he had to be rescued by a snowmobile while skiing on holiday.

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The double Olympic gold medal winner confessed that he struggled to disembark from the ski lift and feared he would tumble off a cliff, completely at a loss for how to stop.

Murray said: “The first two days were shocking. I couldn’t get off the ski lifts.

“My wife refused to go on the ski lifts with me because it’s just embarrassing, isn’t it? I just couldn’t get off, so I had to go on with strangers who were having to lift me up.

“The first day I got stuck up the mountain.

“At the end of the day, we were on a beginner’s slope. The ski lift to take you back up to the top was closing and there was another one further down the hill, and my brother-in-law was like, ‘Let’s go a little bit further and we’ll just go up the other ski lift.’

“So we went down the mountain a little bit. And I can’t ski – I don’t know how to stop at this stage.

“We’d been literally on a beginner green slope, and once you got past that bit, it went on to blues and reds.

‘We went probably 400, 500m down the slope, got to where the ski lift was, and the ski lift had shut. The guy who was operating it said the only way to get down now was to get down the mountain.

“I was like, ‘Ok, I can’t ski.’ He was like, ‘You should have gone up when you were told it was closing.’

“We asked him how far it was, and he said, ‘It’s about 3km to the bottom.’ It’s late in the day, it gets icy as well, it’s harder.

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“I had no idea how to stop, so I had gone about 500m down a narrow slope, and I’m like, ‘If I try to turn, I’m going off the side here.’

“So I’m going straight down. I’ve gone past my brother, and I’m shouting, ‘I’m in trouble here, I don’t know how to stop.’

“I’ve just thrown myself on the ground, and then I started trying to go down on my arse, which I couldn’t do, and eventually got to a restaurant.

“Having picked up the skis, I’m now walking and had to get rescued on one of those skidoos.

“The rescue team are annoyed because usually, it’s like drunk British people at the end of the day who get stuck up the mountain.

“That’s not their job – they’re there to help people who are injured rather than some idiot who thought they could get down the slope late in the day.

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“That was a bit embarrassing.”

Yet, oddly enough, despite this whole escapade, Murray revealed he plans to go skiing again in April.

During his illustrious career, Murray won 46 singles titles, including three prestigious Grand Slam titles—the 2012 US Open, and the Wimbledon Championships in both 2013 and 2016.

He is also celebrated as a two-time Olympic gold medalist, triumphing in the men’s singles events at the 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Murray stands as the most successful British tennis player of the Open Era, being the first British man since Fred Perry in 1936 to win multiple Wimbledon singles titles, and the first British man since Virginia Wade, who claimed the 1977 Wimbledon Championships, to secure a Grand Slam singles title.

He hung up his professional tennis racket following the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Since retiring, he has embraced a new chapter as a coach, currently coaching Novak Djokovic.