A skier has ridden and skied down from over 100 different ski lifts in a single day.
Oliver Kern completed his momentous feat, a new world record, at SkiStar Sälen in Sweden yesterday.
Kern, a ski area expert, running the SkiResort.info website which lists more ski areas than any other in the world, more than 6,000, chose Sälen from his encyclopaedic knowledge of ski areas as its one of the few ski regions on earth where such an achievement is possible.
Along with the large number of lifts to choose from, Kern could also make use of more than 12 hours of operating times as the Kläppen ski area, part of Sälen, stays open for night skiing.
He was also able to start his record attempt at another resort sector, Stöten i Sälen, which opens for Early Bird Skiing from 7.30am (above).
It’s not the first time Kern has set a record for the most lifts skied in a day. He has held the records multiple times, one of seven different world records he holds for different skiing achievements including skiing multiple countries and even continents in the same day.
He first set the record of skiing 52 lifts in a day on 8th December 2007 set at the SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental. In February 2008, this record was beaten with 60 different ski lifts forcing Oliver to break the record again a year later and on 27th January 2009 he skied 70 different ski lifts in one day.
That record lasted 16 but in late January this year Oliver’s record was broken again when someone skied 80 lifts in a day. This time he left it less than a fortnight before taking the record back! Every lift ridden is catalogued here.
Skiing 101 lifts in a day is not Kern’s only achievement in skiing. By the end of the 2024/25 season he expects to have skied in 1000 different ski resorts in 35 countries on 6 continents. He will also set a record with over 8400 ski lifts and cable cars travelled. In the course of his career, besides creating SkiResort.info, he has also collected over 25,000 ski passes.
His only regret yesterday was that he was so busy skiing and riding lifts he did not get chance to make a stop at the only ski-in McDonald’s in Lindvallen, Sälen.
