Downhill skiing forwards down the world’s largest ski jumping slope would be a challenge for most of us. So massive kudos to Norwegian skier Anders Backe who last week not only skied backwards down the Vikersund Hill ski jumping course in Norway last week, but managed to achieve a world record-breaking speed while doing it.
The 37-year-old pro skier hit 82.9mph (133.46 km/h), narrowly surpassing Elias Ambühl’s 81.3mph (131.2 km/h) record which was set in Switzerland in 2017.
