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FIS Newsflash articles 2010
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Seven years of skiing, every day!
Rainer Hertrich, a Colorado, US native, celebrated a special anniversary on 31st October 2010: It was his 2557th consecutive day on skis. In other words, he has skied every day for seven full years straight! The 49-year-old Telemark skier spent the day at still-closed Copper Mountain. And he is showing no sign of slowing down. With the snow season about to start off properly, the most difficult time of the year, the time of having to hike up any batch of snow to get in a few runs every day, is no longer a topic.
Since Hertrich took the unusual challenge on 1st November 2003, he has logged 84 million feet of vertical drop. With that impressive figure, he holds the current Guinness World Record, which is still categorized as "unofficial". His record for "Accumulated Vertical Descent in Consecutive Days on Telemark Gear" will be called official by Guinness once he takes a day off. However, Hertrich says that won't happen until he tallies at least 100 million vertical feet. Now, that's passion. Anyone else?