Slow and quiet. For example, we walk a little unfamiliar on snowshoes through a pack of snow in the forest near Morzine, in the French Alps. “Ssssstttt, in winter the forest sleeps,” guide Simone Simpson whispers. “And yet the trees already know we are here.” Together with Simone we undergo shinrin yoku: we take ‘a bath in the forest’. Winter sports but different.