Browsing entries tagged with World Record
9 Mar 2016
Ski Sunday presenter and British Olympian Graham Bell is developing jet-powered skis with car-maker Jaguar, in an attempt to become the fastest man on skis. The World Record attempt, which will take place…
22 Dec 2015
Les Deux-Alpes is planning a world record torchlit descent early next year to celebrate the completion of a new blue piste that will revolutionise the ski home for intermediates. On Wednesday, 13 January,…
5 Aug 2015
Indoor real snow ski slopes in Milton Keynes and Castleford, Yorkshire, are hoping to break three Guinness World Records in the next two weeks, as part of their Freestyle Fortnight. Between now and Sunday…
21 Apr 2015
The weather might be unseasonably warm at the moment, but more than 1,800 skiers and snowboarders in Siberia took “stripping off” a little further this week to set a new world record for the most people…
16 Feb 2015
Flying on skis took on a new meaning at the weekend, when the men’s ski jump world record was broken twice in two days. The previous world record, for a jump of 246.5m was set in 2011 by Norway’s…
6 Apr 2010
Oliver Kern, the 36-year-old founder of a German ski resort website (Portal skiresort) has recently achieved the world record for the most vertical skied in a day. Kern, who chose the small resort of Speikboden…
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