From 1,000 Resorts to 72,000 Feet: Skier Oliver Kern’s Next Wild Record

Founder of the database skiresort.info and holder of several ski world records, Oliver Kern has his eyes set on a new prize: on October 7, 2025, he aims to establish the benchmark for the most vertical feet skied at an indoor ski area in a single day. 

The associated stats are staggering, according to a post on skiresort.info about the planned record.

In 24 hours, Kern aims to cover 22,000 meters or about 72,000 feet, riding a chairlift and platter lift at the German SnowWorld Bispingen at least 555 times. The indoor ski area, which is home to the only indoor detachable six-person ski chairlift in the world, will provide Kern with “comprehensive support,” according to the post. He’ll set out at midnight on October 7.

If completed, Kern will have notched his eighth world record, some of which seem too absurd to be true.

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For his first world record, Kern skied at three ski resorts on two continents—Europe and North America—on the same day, hitting Loveland and Keystone, Colorado, alongside Kaltenbach-Hochzillertal, Austria. 

How? The page on skiresort.info dedicated to the record didn’t elaborate, but Kern likely took some carefully timed flights. That’s the approach he used to notch another of his records, when he skied in Japan, the U.S., and Canada on the same day. 

During that record, according to worldrecordacademy.com, he hit the slopes at Japan’s Naspa Ski Garden in the morning. Then, he flew to Seattle from Japan, taking advantage of the international dateline and landing at 7:38 a.m. that same day (Seattle is 16 hours behind Japan Standard Time). He visited the nearby Summit at Snoqualmie before driving to Vancouver, British Columbia, and finishing the effort at Grouse Mountain.

Most recently, Kern established a new record in February 2025 when he rode 101 different ski lifts in the same day, bouncing from one Swedish ski resort to the next. 

As you might expect, across his career, Kern visited more ski resorts than most skiers will see in multiple lifetimes. Earlier this year, he spent the day at his 1,000th distinct resort. In total, he’s skied in 35 countries on six continents.

We’re wishing him well as he aims for his eight world record on October 7, 2025.

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