A skier has ridden and skied down from over 100 totally different ski lifts in a single day.
Oliver Kern accomplished his momentous feat, a brand new world document, at SkiStar Sälen in Sweden yesterday.
Kern, a ski space skilled, working the SkiResort.information web site which lists extra ski areas than every other on the planet, greater than 6,000, selected Sälen from his encyclopaedic information of ski areas as its one of many few ski areas on earth the place such an achievement is feasible.
Together with the big variety of lifts to select from, Kern might additionally make use of greater than 12 hours of working instances because the Kläppen ski space, a part of Sälen, stays open for evening snowboarding.
He was additionally capable of begin his document try at one other resort sector, Stöten i Sälen, which opens for Early Hen Snowboarding from 7.30am (above).
It’s not the primary time Kern has set a document for essentially the most lifts skied in a day. He has held the information a number of instances, one in every of seven totally different world information he holds for various snowboarding achievements together with snowboarding a number of nations and even continents in the identical day.
He first set the document of snowboarding 52 lifts in a day on eighth December 2007 set on the SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental. In February 2008, this document was overwhelmed with 60 totally different ski lifts forcing Oliver to interrupt the document once more a yr later and on twenty seventh January 2009 he skied 70 totally different ski lifts in at some point.
That document lasted 16 however in late January this yr Oliver’s document was damaged once more when somebody skied 80 lifts in a day. This time he left it lower than a fortnight earlier than taking the document again! Each carry ridden is catalogued right here.
Snowboarding 101 lifts in a day is just not Kern’s solely achievement in snowboarding. By the tip of the 2024/25 season he expects to have skied in 1000 totally different ski resorts in 35 nations on 6 continents. He may also set a document with over 8400 ski lifts and cable vehicles travelled. In the midst of his profession, in addition to creating SkiResort.information, he has additionally collected over 25,000 ski passes.
His solely remorse yesterday was that he was so busy snowboarding and driving lifts he didn’t get probability to make a cease on the solely ski-in McDonald’s in Lindvallen, Sälen.
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