{"id":2276,"date":"2015-11-15T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sno.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2025-06-23T18:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T17:50:43","slug":"snow-world-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sno.co.uk\/blog\/snow-world-records\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coolest Snow-Related World Records"},"content":{"rendered":"
Guinness World Records have awarded some whacky and wonderful things over the years… We’ve included our favourite ski and snow-related ones below to honour the eleventh annual Guinness World Records Day.<\/span><\/h6>\n

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1994:\u00a0 Most days skied consecutively – Arnie Wilson and Lucy Dicker<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Legendary ski journalist Arnie Wilson is a friend of SNO<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Arnie and Lucy skied every day for a year: 240 resorts in 13 countries. We asked Arnie about the best and worst things about their World Record achievement:<\/span><\/p>\n

“The best thing I guess was realising that Lucy and I had actually achieved what we’d set out to do – it seemed so surreal! We finished up on December 31 and we were crowned the “King and Queen” of skiing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The worst thing was the night of July 22 after our borrowed Lada truck had broken down in Bariloche. It took four successive breakdown trucks to get us back over the Andes from Argentina back to its home in Temuco, Chile to get it repaired and then when we got there we realised we hadn’t skied that day yet, so we tried to hire a taxi to get us to the nearest snow – a volcano called Llaima. But the roads were flooded and not a single taxi would take us there. In the end we managed to hire a truck and skied Llaima for just an hour to keep the record going.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2008: World\u2019s largest snowman – the good people of Bethel, Maine<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n
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The fabulous Olympia! \u00a9 Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

In fact, it was a snowwoman<\/em>, named Olympia. And she had trees for arms, a mouth made of tyres and skis as eyelashes – genius.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We actually built the world\u2019s largest snowman (Angus, King of the Mountain) in 1999, and then beat our own record by building the world\u2019s largest snowwoman (Olympia Snowwoman) in 2008.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

It took a lot of hands on deck to make these projects happen, but people really banded together, from the school children who made the giant \u201ccarrot\u201d nose to the construction company that donated use of their crane!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The funniest thing is that tourists still occasionally ask us and other places around town where we keep our snowman\/snowwoman \u2013 like they are in a giant freezer somewhere! The look on people\u2019s faces is priceless when they realize that the snowpeople have melted.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a02009: Smallest Snowman ever made – National Physical Laboratory<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Courtesy of NPL<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

This diddy thing was created by scientists at the NPL- it measures 10 MICROmetres across, that’s one fifth of the width of an average human hair! No rolling snowballs here – it was made from two balls normally used for calibrating electron microscopes. The eyes, nose and it’s tinsy smile were all etched on using an ion beam.<\/span><\/p>\n

2013: Longest time juggling three snow balls with bare hands – Nathaniel Tower<\/span><\/h3>\n

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