Skiing Holiday day 4

There was one day that I want to share with you regarding one of the best experiences I have ever had in all the seasons and different countries I have skied in.
We had our off piste guide taking us to some fantastic areas at Val d'Isere in France all week so far and I just could not have dreamt this afternoon was going to be the skiing experience that memories are made of.  If I never skied again (and I definitely hope that is not the case) the one experience, if I had to pick one that would stand out from all the skiing experiences would probably be this afternoon.
We had just finished yet again another lovely lunch and went outside ready to ski the afternoon, I felt a bit tired after a few days hard skiing and unfortunately not the best nights sleep, I was probably too excited like a little boy at Christmas.  But with the fresh mountain air I soon felt good to go again, only two of us made it out after lunch, my best mate and I, we have been skiing together for a very long time now.  The others that were in our group either met up with other people or felt too tired to ski this afternoon.  It turned out that only being two of us was our gain and their loss as the guide was waiting to see if he got only two or three skiers to take us down some very steep and exhilarating off piste.  I write exilarating because quite frankly if we did not do as he told us and follow him closely then it could have been very dangerous.
In the cable car on the way up he asked us both 'are you chicken?' to which we both replied of course not we love the steep stuff.  Now let me explain when our guide said something like 'this next bit is quite steep' it is a little dangerous here' what he meant was 'this bit is almost vertical' and 'this bit is extremely dangerous and only idiots or guides with the correct off piste equipment ever come near here'.
So when we made it to the top of the cable car, we put our skis on and he quickly told us to take them off and looked up to our right and said we are walking up there, take it easy as it will take us about 30 minutes to walk.  We were heading to the top of the mountain called Rocher de Bellevarde at 2827m, this is the point where the World Championship Men's Downhill skied from and they head down the Face, which incidentally is one the best black runs I have ever skied (ski it in the morning though as it gets torn up and the top layer of snow gets taken off leaving some icy patches by late afternoon).
We did not ski down the men's downhill, you are not allowed to as it takes you right through the top of the cable exit where lost of people are after coming out of the cable.  I will cover off what we skied in my next blog.