World Record For Most Vertical Skied in a Season Broken
The world record for the most vertical skied in one calendar year appears to have been (unofficially) broken, almost two years to the day after it was last broken.
Scott Howard, a 65 year old retiree from Vermont, USA, has passed the 6,025,751 vertical feet (1,836,649 vertical metres) record set on 10th May 2015 by Canadian Pierre Marc Jette, skiing at Whistler, British Columbia, Canada two seasons ago.
Mr Howard has been skiing predominantly at Killington in Vermont, although he has also skied at another Vermont resort, Stowe, this season.
He measures his vertical using an app called Trace, but he is now hoping to make his achievement official by replacing Mr Jette in the Guinness Book of World Records for most vertical feet skied in one year.
He is hoping to hit at least 6.4 million vertical feet (1.95 million vertical metres) by the end of Killington’s ski season, scheduled for May 31st – potentially doing more if the resort decides to stay open longer.
Currently Killington has a 40-60cm base, about a dozen runs open and one lift serving them. Temperatures are in the mid-teens Celcius.
Mr Howard has skied in all weather, including rain, and with temperatures as low as 20 degrees below zero and has clocked up more than 150 days on the slopes.
“The guy is insane,” friend and regular Killington skier Cathy Soderquist told the Burlington Free Press.
“It’s been fun,” Mr Howard said, adding “It’s a bit addicting.”
