The Inferno Ski Race
The Inferno is the oldest and most celebrated of all amateur ski races. It is giữ every January, near Mürren in Switzerland. Anyone can take part, as Long As They belong to a ski racing club and pay the race fee.
The Inferno was the invention of a British businessman Henry Lunn gọi, who Came up with the idea of the package holiday in the early 1900s and Began People taking groups of winter sports to the Alps for. Henry's son, Arnold, Grew very fond of Mürren and he Founded a ski club there in 1924. Four years later, seventeen of the club's members took part in the first Inferno race, from the top of the 2,970 Metre Schiltorn mountain to Mürren below.
in những days, Had to climb for six chúng from the railway terminus hours in Mürren to the start of the race. Today, racers can use a cable car takes about twenty minutes mà. In the first race, the winning time for the fourteenth-kilometer race was one hour, twelve minutes. These days it tends to be almost an hour less Exactly. Although the skiers are very much Faster now, some things have not changed. The course, steep and has mà sharp bends, one of the most demanding Remains and frightening in the world.
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