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My tween son has disabilities and is unable to walk or talk, which makes it tough to include him in activities. But a couple of years ago, I was thrilled to find a variety of adaptive skiing accommodations. For example, a skier with disabilities can rent or buy equipment like outriggers and braces to help control their speed and balance on the mountain. For others, like my son who needs more support, participants get comfortable in a sit-ski and are guided through the snow by a professional. Watching my son swish down the mountain grinning from ear to ear was an amazing sight. Since then, I've wanted to learn more about how my son, and the rest of our family, can get out on the slopes. And I recently found out that there are many programs around the US that offer adaptive skiing. Read below to find out more. With over 400 volunteer instructors throughout their various programs, the folks at Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports have been working with people with a range of disabilities at quite a few locations across Vermont for over 37 years. Participants can sign up for either a half-day ($100) or full-day lesson ($150) which includes a lift ticket, adaptive equipment, and the lesson from an instructor, but they will never turn someone away based on an inability to pay. The company offers scholarships and a sliding scale fee system to those in need. Start by registering on the website and filling out a profile so the team knows how to support you or your skier the best....

As Olivier Gardet piloted the drone around the mountain, his colleague, who was looking through goggles connected to its infrared camera, could see the avalanche clearly: a long tongue of debris, visible from 2 kilometers away. Then he noticed the heat signature of a person moving across it, digging frantically in the churned up snow. 'I got on the radio,' Gardet remembers, 'and I said to dispatch: 'There must be someone alive under there.'' As an experienced pisteur in the French ski resort of Val Thorens, it's Gardet's job to keep the slopes safe. But that day he had his work cut out. 'It had been snowing heavily the evening before and through the night, so we'd had a lot of calls about avalanches,' he remembers. As part of a newly launched pilot scheme, he and his colleague had been responding to some of these calls using the latest addition to their slope-safety toolbox: a DJI Matrice 210 drone. 'Of course, the majority of the time, there's nothing; the avalanches are nowhere near people,' Gardet says. But in the case of this particular slide, off the back of a 2,804-meter-high peak called Pointe de la Masse, the drone instantly proved its worth....

When real-estate-startup cofounder Vai Gupta visited downtown San Francisco from the suburbs last year, he borrowed a conference room at a branch of Silicon Valley Bank to host a quick business meeting, just like he has several times over the past decade. Gupta also has leaned on the bank for networking events, financial tutorials, and discount codes for business software and services. Other banks offer competing perks, but SVB's total package had won Gupta's loyalty, until the tech-focused financial giant cratered last week. Now Gupta is among thousands of customers wondering whether they will ever again find a financial institution that offers the unique blend of benefits, savvy, and speed that SVB delivered to entrepreneurs. Founded about 40 years ago by a Stanford University professor who teamed with banking experts after noticing students struggling to fund business ideas, Silicon Valley Bank treated startup founders like royalty long before their companies ever generated a profit or even raised significant funding....