From the lowlands to the mountains and back again. What drives us up, what pulls us down? After years of competition, Manuela Mandl increasingly asks herself what it’s all about. Why go up if you must then face the dangers of racing down again in deep snow? Why fly across the Atlantic if all you get at the competition is a mogul slope instead of powder? Life in the lowlands would be so much easier. At night in the winter room it all becomes clearer, and the grandmother from Lower Austria sheds further light on the matter from a very different perspective.