Colorado Fourth Grader Skis Antarctica on Way Towards Breaking World Record On February 1, 2022, a fourth-grade elementary school student, Keira Lipp, climbed up and skied down two different sides of a mountain in Antarctica, putting her one continent away from breaking the world record of the youngest person to ski all seven continents. Keira and her father traveled with adventure company White Desert by plane from Cape Town, South Africa, […] SnowBrains | February 3, 2022 0 Comments
Athlete Spotlight: African Nation Eritrea’s First Winter Olympian Back For Round Two in Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games are foremost an arena for the best of the best to compete in a prestigious competition. Austria, France and Switzerland are the obvious frontrunners in terms of medal winnings in Alpine Skiing at the Olympic Winter Games, with Austria winning 121 Alpine Skiing medals since the races were first introduced to the Olympics at the 1936 Olympiad […] Olympics Phil Tremblay | February 2, 2022 2 Comments
[VIDEO] Netflix Trailer – 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible Fearless Nepali mountaineer Nimsdai Purja embarks on a seemingly impossible quest to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks in seven months. This Netflix documentary covers his remarkable achievement. Original SnowBrains reporting of the feat from October 29th, 2019, below: A 36-year-old Nepali just became the fastest climber to summit the world’s 14 highest mountains on Tuesday, summiting all […] Movie Trailer CragBrains | December 1, 2021 0 Comments
Ted Ligety Announces Retirement After Golden 17-Year Career Two-time Olympic champion and Land Rover U.S. Alpine Ski Team athlete Ted Ligety has announced his retirement, capping a storied 17-year career. Ligety announced on Tuesday that he will stand in the start gate one final time on the world stage in the giant slalom at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships at Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy on Feb. 19th. Related: VIDEO: […] Industry News SnowBrains | February 9, 2021 2 Comments
Latin American Women Sets New World Record For Climbing Earth’s Three Highest Peaks All of us dream of being on the top of the world, but very few actually reach the top. Viridiana Àlvarez Chàvez had a bigger dream, climb the three highest peaks on the planet (Everest, K2, and Kangchenjunga) in record-setting time; a daunting task for even the most experienced of climbers. Viridiana completed the task in an inspiring length of […] Climbing Ryan Flynn | August 28, 2020 2 Comments
Will Big Mountain Skiing Ever Make It To The Olympics? Slopestyle, pipe, and big air are all already in the Olympics, so why have we not yet seen big mountain skiing introduced to the world’s biggest sporting event? Will it ever make it to the top? These are questions that I have asked myself the past eight or so years. Related: Top 11 U.S. Big Mountain Ski Resorts: Opinion From […] Olympics Ryan Flynn | August 20, 2020 3 Comments
NOAA: Reporting on the State of the Climate 2019 This post first appeared on climate.gov and was written by Jessica Blunden A new State of the Climate report confirmed that 2019 was among the three warmest years in records dating to the mid-1800s with a short-term warming, but weak, El Niño influence early in the year. Related: NOAA: July 2020 Was Record Hot for Many U.S. States The report […] Weather WeatherBrains | August 13, 2020 1 Comment
Olympic Downhiller Steven Nyman Suffers Injury During Crash at Timberline Resort, OR Training Camp Olympian, and friend of SnowBrains, Steven Nyman has suffered a right Achilles tendon injury while training at Timberline Resort and Ski Area, OR. 38-year-old Steven, who is on the men’s speed team and a mentor to fellow teammates, injured his left Achilles tendon in November of 2011. And less than two weeks before the start of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games […] Industry News SnowBrains | August 7, 2020 0 Comments