Engelberg
|
Speed Race
|
When:
|
Dec 2008 (annual)
|
|
Where:
|
Titlis Glacier
|
| Costs: |
SFr15
|
| Opening Hours: |
Evening, when the floodlights go on
|
Like Jackass on ice, the Speed Race combines the unquenchable human desire for exhilaration with the questionable human appetite for stupidity. Dozens of skiers and snowboarders congregate at the Skischule Engelberg as night falls to ski down the Titlisschanze. All at the same time.
The course may be only 130 metres long, but with a 40° gradient to overcome, the race is not at all straightforward. Or pain free. One tumble by a snowboarder ploughing into the route of a traversing skier could kick-start a spectacular domino effect...
The race is an exercise in making a challenge as uncomfortable as possible for the contestants. Anyone foolish enough to want to enter can do so by calling the ski school.
|