Maisie Hill: Freestyle snowboarder back on slopes with Winter Olympics in mind

Hill was left with a broken spine, ribs and pelvis, a fractured lung, bleed on the brain and a lacerated liver which caused her to lose 20% of her blood, after the fall where she came off a rail and careered into a wall of ice.

After returning home to Cheltenham she had to re-learn to walk, before spending months in the gym and pool rehabilitating.

"I've just kept a really good mindset throughout this whole thing.

I was either going to let it ruin me or I was going to get back up, and I definitely got back up," Hill said.

"After seven months I was cleared from the doctor to go snowboarding again and I cried when I walked out of the hospital."

Hill spent a month in New Zealand snowboarding and while she initially found it "frustrating" taking it slow, gradually she re-found herself.

"I built it up and by the end of it I was back to normal again," she said.

"By the end of it I would fall and not even think about my pelvis, and just get back up."