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SnowBrains Podcast Ep. 80 | Anna DeMonte – Ski Mountaineer & Mont Blanc Women’s Ski FKT Record Holder

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This episode of the SnowBrains podcast is brought to you by Club Med. Anna DeMonte is a ski mountaineering athlete who, in June 2024, captured the Women’s Ski Fastest Known Time (FKT) on 15,766′ Mont Blanc in Chamonix, France. 9,000′ vertical backcountry days are normal for her, and recently, she has been averaging over 25,000′ of human-powered vertical a week. The […]
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Big Sky Resort, MT Undergoes Construction of the Fastest 6-Seat Lift in the United States

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With ski season just around the corner and people itching to travel, lift wait times could be longer than ever for the 2021-2022 ski season. Luckily, Big Sky Resort in Montana has a solution: installing the fastest six-seat chairlift in the US. This chairlift, known as the Swift Current 6, is predicted to be completed within the next two months. […]
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American Woman Smashes Land Speed Record on a Bicycle | Covers One Mile at 183.9-MPH

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Former US national track, road, and mountain bike champion Denise Mueller-Korenek, 45 has smashed the land speed record on a bicycle, covering one mile at 183.932 mph on a custom-built carbon KHS. The attempt on Sunday at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah beat the previous record of 167mph, held by Dutchman Fred Rompleberg and destroyed the women’s record of […]
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Which Olympic Sport is the Fastest?

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Which Olympic sport is the fastest? Without thinking, most of us would assume luge or bobsled or skeleton. It make sense, right? If you’re going to travel at dangerous speeds, you’d want to be in some kind of vehicle or at least on sled you could bail off of. Alas, neither is true. Once again, skiers win. Johan Clarey of France once skied at 101mph in a World Cup race. Whoa. A downhill skier vs. a bobsled? A comically dressed curler vs. a brawny hockey player? Sure, each sport is dierent — some more graceful, others more death defying, […]
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