American skier Noah Dines began 2024 with a New Year’s resolution that was probably a little bit more ambitious than yours – he wanted to ski more than three million vertical feet uphill in a single year.
The 30-year-old is not quite there yet, but so far he’s already set two world records: the most vertical feet skied uphill in a single month (378,024ft, which he achieved in January) and on September 2, at the Chilean ski resort of El Colorado, he surpassed the previous record of 2,506,500ft for the most vertical feet skied uphill in a year. And all without the aid of chairlifts or other sneaky mechanical aid.
