She is the reigning queen of the mountain in telemark skiing – not bad for someone from a county where the highest point is only 128m above sea level.
Jasmin Taylor earned the world number one ranking after winning the parallel sprint and overall titles at the World Cup finals in March.
And having contemplated whether there was anything left for her to do in the sport, the 31-year-old from Ipswich is preparing for another winter season in which she will try to win her first World Championships gold medal after four previous podium finishes.
“We’ve planned training differently this year. Normally we would have a week out training, a couple of weeks at home, a week out training , but this year instead of travelling to and from the glaciers, we’re just going to have one solid block where we just hit it hard for a month,” she told BBC Radio Suffolk.
“That actually is a bit daunting because it’s exhausting training at altitude when you don’t have your ski legs and need to get yourself back into it.”
The former University of Suffolk student became Britain’s first telemark World Championships medallist when she won sprint bronze at Steamboat Springs in 2015, and repeated it at La Plagne two years later.
Two years ago, she won parallel sprint silver at Murren in Switzerland and was third in the classic event, but once again the coveted gold medal eluded her.
“Like last season, you become World Cup champion and people drop the ‘cup’ and call you world champion but in ski racing, it’s something slightly different,” she added.
“To be world champion, you have to win the World Championships – I feel like I’m being pernickety when people say ‘world champion’ but actually I’m not.”
The new World Cup season begins at Prinzolo in Italy in December and runs through until next March.
But the final event will follow the World Championships at Les Contamines-Montjoie in France from 17-25 March.
Taylor said: “You have a different approach because in the World Cup you’re trying to collect as many points throughout the season and the person with most points at the end if world number one.
“With the World Champs, it’s about bang, your best performance on the day, so it’s a different challenge, which is interesting and fun.”
She believes that despite last season’s successes, there is still room for improvement.
“There’s certain aspects of last season I’m obviously really proud of and will stay with me forever,” Taylor added.
“But there have been parts of other seasons when I think ‘what if I’d held on to that approach here?’ – it wasn’t like this perfect linear upward progression.
“It wasn’t the perfect season, even though the result was pretty much as perfect as I wanted it to be.
“I still feel like I have had performances in the past which I’ve been prouder of, even though the result has not been as good? Does that make sense?”
As with all perfectionists whatever their sport – yes it does.
