When I did the 24-hour Hope on the Slopes vertical challenge last weekend at Skibowl, I thought a reasonable goal for me would be 50,000 feet. (That was before the 19-hour downpour.) Then I learned about the legendary ski mountaineer Greg Hill doing 50,000 feet in a day and earning every one of those feet by climbing up. 50,000 feet in one day. That’s like Welches to the summit of Mount Hood, five times! Whaaat?

Hill has climbed up and skied down 2 million feet in a single year. Not only does he avoid riding lifts of all kinds, he refuses to shred the same line twice.

If you are going to work that hard to get your turns, you want your line to be yours alone.

Here is a brief YouTube video about Greg Hill’s “March Madness” quest to shred 100,000 vertical meters in one month in British Columbia. 

Legs.

Of.

Steel.

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Last modified: March 10, 2014