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Can a British blind man ski at 193 km/h?

 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead
Earlier this week British skier Kevin Alderton, who was blinded 7 years ago in a mugging incident, announced that he would go to the Olympic speed ski track at Arc 2000 next March and ski at 193 km/h (120 mph).

Here's how this ambition is reported in today's Daily Mirror, and the earlier announcement by his sponsor St Dunstan's, a support charity for blind ex-servicemen and servicewomen.

Can he achieve this? In technical terms it seems an impossibly ambitious target, so let's keep tabs on it. Keeping a true line down the narrow 'Flying Kilometer' track would require remarkable intuition and feedback from the track and skis.

On the other hand, anyone who's been to the top of the Arcs track and looked down would confirm that blindness could be better than the sight of this terrifyingly steep descent - there's no steeper straighter piece of piste in the world (for its length) - and I've seen some huge falls there.

So, hats of to this guy for sheer bravado. He's out to raise money for charity through this world record attempt, by the way.


Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Sat 25-06-05 17:50; edited 1 time in total
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
David Goldsmith, Bravo! Which charity? (being too lazy too read the story yet...
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
David Goldsmith, you've got the same (St. Dunstan's) url behind both links, old chap.
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Wow! Good luck to him! I would soooooooo never do the Flying K anyway!
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Julia
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 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
laundryman, many thanks. Have corrected the link.
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David Goldsmith,

Doh!!! The charity you mention of course.
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