He began skiing as a child in the Cairngorm mountains, in central Scotland, and even remembers taking home a Thermos flask of snow as a souvenir.

他从小就开始在苏格兰中部的黑水晶山脉（凯恩戈姆山脉）滑雪，甚至记得曾将一暖壶雪带回家作为纪念。