Exclusive: The ’Cool Runnings’ experience | First amateur tries out the La Plange bobsleigh track

To mark the centenary of the first Winter Olympics Games, our writer was the first amateur to trail one of the world’s most dangerous winter sports in La Plagne – piloting a bobsleigh, solo, at speeds over 50mph Hunkered down in the pilot’s seat of a 120kg two-man bobsleigh, 1,613 metres up in the French Alps. Brave or Foolish? #LaPlagne #winter #bobsleigh Subscribe to The Telegraph with our special offer: just £1 for 3 months. Start your free trial now: Get the latest headlines: and are websites of The Telegraph, the UK’s best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.