95-year-old blind veteran skis for the first time in 80 years and yodels all the way down

Harley Welsh, 95, was excited to try sit skiing for the first time. 

“It’s never too late to try something new,” he said.

Welsh, who is blind, spent more than a decade in the army and served in the Korean War.

On Friday, he went down Optimist Hill in Saskatoon.

“You only live once,” he said before going up the hill.

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Harley Welsh, 95, a war veteran, enjoys the thrill of Optimist Hill in Saskatoon on a sit ski. The blind senior