Breaking the ice ceiling

• Published date: 10 August 2023
• Publication title: Mountain Scene

A CAREER in the ski industry isn’t what Christine Law envisaged

But Queenstown’s pretty lucky it’s where she’s ended up.

From Mississauga in Ontario, Canada — about 20 minutes outside Toronto — Law didn’t even grow up on the mountains, describing her nearby east coast skifields as ‘‘pretty much just hills’’.

Law, now 33, went to the University of Toronto where she studied professional writing and communications, with a goal of getting paid to eat or travel and write about it.

‘‘At the time, I actually really wanted to be a writer and I think when I went to uni for writing it just took it out of me.

‘‘I was just constantly writing and I thought, ‘I just need to not write for a little bit’.’’

Her creative break led her to Whistler Blackcomb where she picked up a job working in the retail rental division.

She stayed there for two years, ended up managing two rental stores and fell head over heels in love with snowboarding.

Meantime, her Australian-born...