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Largest UK Ski Operator Cancels All Trips Until March

Crystal Ski Holidays, the largest ski operator in the United Kingdom, has announced that it will be canceling all ski trips up until March 5. This news comes after many countries around the world have increased or extended travel restrictions and ski closures due to rising Covid-19 case levels and fears of new virus variants. On the Crystal Ski Holidays […]

Liam Abbott | January 25, 2021
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New World Record for “Greatest Vertical Distance Skied Up & Downhill in 24 Hours (Indoors)”

On December 15th, 2020, the twenty-six-year-old British man Callum Mackenzie broke the Guinness World Record for “Greatest Vertical Distance Skied Up & Downhill in 24 Hours (indoors).” In twenty-two hours, Callum was able to ski a vertical drop of 39,371’ (12,000m). He accomplished this feat by skiing up and down the indoor ski hill Chill Factore in the UK over […]

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Liam Abbott | December 26, 2020
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“Beast From the East” Brings Life Threatening Siberian Conditions to normally Snowless Britain | Country in Near Lockdown

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Since last Friday, Europe has been locked in a Siberian weather pattern, aka the ‘Beast From the East’, that has pummeled the Continent with snow, freezing rain and brutal wind chills, paralyzing cities unaccustomed to more than a thin wet film of snow and killing dozens of people, mainly older and homeless people, reports the New York Times. The weather […]

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WeatherBrains | March 2, 2018
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Britain is Totally without Snow for only the 7th Time in 300 Years

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Britain has lost its longest-lasting patch of snow for the first time in over a decade, an event which has happened only six other times in the previous 300 years. Known as the Sphinx, (or affectionately known by climbers and walkers as “Scotland’s Glacier”), the patch at Garbh Choire Mor on Braeriach is historically the longest-lasting in Scotland’s mountains and […]

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Steven Agar | October 3, 2017
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