VIDEO: 11-Year-Old Olympic Skateboarder Sky Brown Fractures Skull and Wrist in Horrific Fall 11-year-old British skateboarder Sky Brown is lucky to be alive after being involved in a horrific fall during training in California last week. Landing head-first, she suffered skull fractures and broken bones in her left wrist and hand and was taken to hospital by helicopter. This was my worst fall yet. My helmet and arm saved my life. This will not stop […] Olympics SnowBrains | June 3, 2020 0 Comments
Spotlight On: Sky Brown, Eleven-Year-Old Olympian Sky Brown may look like the average little kid who goes to school every day and then spends her free time playing with her friends and little brother, but she’s far from normal. At only eleven years old, Sky is a world-renowned skateboarder, recently winning the Bronze medal at the World Championships in Brazil, and becoming the first woman to land […] Olympics Lucy Ferneyhough | February 28, 2020 0 Comments
Gus Kenworthy: Team GB or Team USA for the 2022 Winter Olympics? Gus Kenworthy, a two-time Olympian for Team USA, revealed in a statement from his agent that he is open to switching teams to represent Great Britain at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Kenworthy is a world-renowned freestyle skier and has previously competed in the halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air competitions, earning him many medals including a silver for Team […] Industry News Lucy Ferneyhough | November 15, 2019 0 Comments
71,000-Pounds of Waste Removed from Everest | Nearly Half of that is Human Excrement With the end of the year’s main climbing season, mountaineers generated over thirty tonnes (over 70,000 pounds) of waste below Camp II on Mt Everest, an official at Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) said. After nearly 1,000 climbers and their support staff spent about two months on the slopes of Everest this season, “Locals collected more garbage in the region this […] Climbing Steven Agar | July 6, 2018 0 Comments
Friday 16th February | Today’s Olympic Schedule… When and Where to Watch Mikaela Shiffrin showed us during yesterday’s schedule that she is human, and you can’t win them all, finishing fourth in the women’s slalom. In other news, Great Britain, who before the games were talking of a record medal haul, achieved their first medal of the games yesterday with a bronze for Dom Parson in the men’s skeleton. Go Team GB! […] Olympics Steven Agar | February 16, 2018 0 Comments
Extreme Wind Blowing Chairs with Riders Vertical: NEW FOOTAGE If you’ve recovered from watching the video that emerged last week of the extreme winds in the Alps blowing chairs, a new video has emerged that is, if possible, even more frightening! Can you imagine what is going through those skiers minds? Weather Steven Agar | January 11, 2018 0 Comments
2.6 Million Pounds of Rockfall Kills 1 Climber on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, CA Yesterday We reported on this tragedy yesterday in Yosemite, CA. Today, Yosemite National Park if releasing more details. Yosemite Rockfall Details: Rockfall occurred on southeast face of El Capitan at 1:52pm yesterday 1,300 tons (2.6 million lbs) of rock fell in 7 successive rockfalls 2 climbers were at the base of El Capitan – one was killed, one was injured The […] Climbing CragBrains | September 28, 2017 2 Comments
NASA: “Mega-Canyons” Discovered Beneath Glaciers of Greenland Never Seen by Humans Glaciers generally move slow. Greenland’s glaciers have been moving extremely fast (up to 11-miles per year). The Sermeq Kujalleq glacier (aka Jakobshavn Isbræ glacier) in Greenland is the fastest flowing glacier in the world. Why? NASA decided to investigate the topography beneath the glaciers of Greenland with radio frequencies to find answers. Michael Cooper and colleagues from Bristol’s School of Geographical […] Industry News The Brains | June 30, 2016 1 Comment