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Maximum Vertical in a Day?
Posted: 29 March 2011 01:46 PM  
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How about 18260 meters? Some people don’t do that in a season. 38 year old Forent Perrier, who has 11 world cup titles in ski mountainerring has just achieved this on the 25 March at ArĂȘches. That’s over 750m/hour over a whole day. Incroyable. His going into retirement now, well earned I would say.

http://www.ski-alpinisme.com/article.php?id=4142

Tnanks to http://skitour.fr/ for the heads up.

 
 
Posted: 31 March 2011 06:28 PM   [ # 1 ]  
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wow. his record ascent is considerably more than my record descent of about 15k - lift served of course. smile

 
 
Posted: 31 March 2011 06:47 PM   [ # 2 ]  
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Yes but if they kept the lifts open all night (maybe in Lapland?) you could do better. I doubt many people break 10K meters lift served.

 
 
Posted: 01 April 2011 10:29 AM   [ # 3 ]  
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Average of 750m/hour....nuts, makes you appreciate how seriously fit the guys at the very top end of any endurance sport really are, when compared to us mere mortals smile