Just two weeks after the The Inferno, Pippa embarked on one of her most dicey challenges — a 31-mile ski/trek along the Italian-Swiss border. After a highly experienced member of her group suffered altitude sickness and a horrifying tumble down a steep piste of sheet ice, one of her teammates later revealed what an accomplished athlete Pippa is, recalling: "Pippa now took charge. By far the best skier among us, she led the way, picking a line down the mountain and then setting the pace for the last leg of the course."
One month later, Pippa completed the Great Wall Marathon in China for the British Heart Foundation alongside her now-husband.
Pippa's final endurance exercise last year was scaling the Matterhorn — a highly emotional experience as she was climbing in memory of her now-husband's late brother Michael Matthews, alongside her own brother James. Pippa later said, "The climb was in every way exhilarating, each step taking us a little further from our comfort zone, with lactic acid building in our thighs, a light head from the altitude and a dry mouth resulting from a combination of fear, adrenaline and dehydration. For all that, my brother and I have loved it. Not only do we have the same ethos but we look after each other."
