Les Arcs Sets Record For Biggest Torchlit Descent
Les Arcs Sets Record For Biggest Torchlit Descent
Published : 19-Feb-2016 05:37
Les Arcs has set a new world record for the number of people simultaneously participating in a torchlit descent.
2,887 people signed up at the French resort and skied-down the Vagère piste as dusk was falling yesterday.
The record seems to be a popular one for larger ski resorts around the world to tackle but apparently had been held for a decade by Fribourg ski resort in Switzerland where 2854 people took part.
Participants met up from 5.15pm at Arc 1800 yesterday taking the Vagère chairlift up the slope before the record attempt began at 6.30pm.
The successful record setting was recorded by a representative of the Guinness Book the resort says, and was followed by a fireworks display
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