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...such as temperatures of -40C, thickening of the blood, severe lack of oxygen, and unrelenting storms....
...are not things we worry about too much on the bunny slopes of the Alps.
New Zealander Todd Windle, who's based in Chamonix, is about to embark on some seriously thin-air skiing in Alaska (5000m) and Tibet (8000m).
This interesting report from the
New Zealand Herald
describes the adversities he'll encounter.
The article claims that his planned virgin descent of Mount St Elias, from summit to ocean, will be the "longest ski run ever done". Interesting claim. I'm not sure of the existing data on this, which maybe requires continuous downhill gradients, or does it?
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David Goldsmith
, no problem - it's easily done - especially when you've been away for a few days supping Carlsberg.
Answering your question, from the second article this
Quote:
Although another team had skied from the summit of Mount St. Elias in 2000, they had not gone all the way to the ocean. The run to the sea, with its 18,000-foot vertical descent, would qualify Griber and his teammates for the world record for an uninterrupted vertical ski descent
so it seems it will be a record if it is done without incident. Seems the mountain which is the 2nd highest in US is unusual in that it goes right down to sea level. Here's a good
photo
and a link to the other
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Answering your question, from the second article this
