Contrary to popular prejudices, the average skier is a rather cozy being. In the case of ski area operators, it is well known, for example, that as many blue, i.e. flat slopes as possible attract significantly more customers than steep slopes and humpback slopes. According to the Board of Trustees for Road Safety, every second Austrian skier remains on the slopes below the 55-hour kilometer mark. In the land of Hermann Maiers and Franz Klammers, it seems like that the Germans actually drive in a walking street. Depending on the source, the average skier only covers between 18 and 24 kilometers and 4600 meters per day and uses just eleven to twelve times. How else would the many alpine huts and other refreshments to be filled? However, all the après-ski critics should ask themselves where such a skier, oh what, man can actually do more damage in general: on the slope or at the counter?
And then there are guys like Christian Flühr, the “Mr. Ski world record ”, as it says on his website bond-auf-bretttern.com. Flühr drove 264 hours in Obergurgl ski once more than 15 years ago, non -stop, and has covered 53,577 meters in 24 hours. Flühr has now crossed the 50 and is the state chairman of the liberal seniors Bavaria (LIS). Nevertheless, he only set a further record a few days ago by using 80 different lifts in the ski areas of Kitzbühel and Skiwelt Wilder Kaiser. During his 15-hour company, he was looked after by a team of physiotherapists and employees of the ski area. And if you now make fun of the fact that according to media reports, according to media reports, “has always had a specially composed world record anthem”, you should know that the man actually comes from the flat Ruhr area and rather does not look like one of these outstanding, fun-free superathletes.
:88 kilometers skiing in one day
Through the ski areas of Wilder Kaiser and Kitzbühel, one of the longest ski rounds in the Alps leads. But how many slopes does humans need? And how many do he create? A self -experiment.
The competition from the warehouse of the extreme ski normalos is already moving. The former record holder of this discipline and founder of a large ski portal, Oliver Kern, has announced that he would like to set a new best in the next few days. Kern wants to use 100 different ski lifts in one day in the Swedish ski region of Häsen. This roughly corresponds to what the common vacationer needs for a whole week – if only because of the up time on the gondolas. Apart from the fact that a German duel from ski giants finally grows here again, the record hunting for winter sports enthusiasts raises several questions: this may be the only way so that the almost 80 euros for the day ticket in the giant ski areas of the Alps finally pay off ? Do we just have to extend our skiing days given the shorter winter? Or shouldn’t we just drink a beer at the counter instead of wanting to prove ourselves on the slopes? Because one thing is certain: a lot of après-ski is no longer possible after 100 lift trips and at least as many kilometers of slopes.