What Avalanche actor also set a Guinness World record?
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Avalanche (1994 film) Avalanche is a 1994 CTV made-for-television disaster thriller film directed by Paul Shapiro and starring Michael Gross, Deanna Milligan, Myles Ferguson and David Hasselhoff as main characters. The film was shot in British Columbia, Canada.
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David Hasselhoff David Michael Hasselhoff (born July 17, 1952), nicknamed "The Hoff", is an American actor, singer, producer, and businessman, who set a Guinness World Record as the most watched man on TV.
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2009 Schalfkogel avalanche The 2009 Schalfkogel avalanche was an avalanche which occurred in Sölden, Austria, on 2 May 2009. Six people were killed, five Czechs and one Slovak, when the disaster struck in the 3500 m Schalfkogel mountain range. The corpses were discovered to have been frozen upon recovery. It was the deadliest avalanche to have occurred in Austria since March 2000. Although avalanches are a regular occurrence in the region, they mainly kill individuals as opposed to entire groups.
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Zach Warren Zach Warren (born 1981) is an American circus performer and development worker in Afghanistan. He is known for breaking world records in unicycling and juggling.
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Dougal Haston Dougal Haston, (19 April 1940 – 17 January 1977), was a Scottish mountaineer famed for his exploits in the British Isles, Alps, and Himalayas. He died in an avalanche while skiing above Leysin, Switzerland.
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Kolka–Karmadon rock ice slide The Kolka–Karmadon rock-ice slide occurred on the northern slope of the Kazbek massif in Northern Georgia on the 20 of September 2002, following a partial collapse of the Kolka Glacier. It started on the north-northeast wall of Dzhimarai-Khokh, 4780 m above sea level, and seriously affected the valley of Genaldon and Karmadon. The resulting avalanche and mudflow killed 125 people (including a film crew of 27 people and Russian actor Sergei Bodrov Jr.). While this type of avalanche is not uncommon this particular event is considered extraordinary because of several aspects.
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Dave Hahn David Allen Hahn (November 3, 1961, Okinawa, Japan) is a professional mountain guide, ski patroller, journalist and lecturer. In May 2013, he reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 15th time - the most for a non-Sherpa climber, according to "Outside Magazine" contributor and climber Alan Arnette. Among Hahn’s other notable accomplishments are his 35 summits of Vinson Massif, Antarctica’s highest mountain. He has reached the summit of Denali in Alaska, North America’s highest peak, 21 times over the course of 30 expeditions.
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Anders Fannemel Anders Fannemel (] ; born 13 May 1991) is a Norwegian ski jumper. He is a former ski flying world record holder, with 251.5 m set in Vikersund on 15 February 2015.
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Dan Osman Daniel Eugene Osman (February 11, 1963 – November 23, 1998) was an American extreme sport practitioner, known for the dangerous sports of free-soloing, rock climbing without ropes or other safety gear. He participated in rope free-flying or rope jumping, falling several hundred feet from a cliff then being caught by a safety rope, for which his record was over 1000 ft .
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Powell Janulus Powell Alexander Janulus (born 1939, aged 77) is a Canadian polyglot who lives in White Rock, British Columbia, and was entered into the Guinness World Records in 1985 for fluency in 42 languages. To qualify, he had to pass a two-hour conversational fluency test with a native speaker of each of the 42 different languages he spoke at that time.
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Bradley Cooper Bradley Charles Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American actor. He was one of the world's highest-paid actors for three years, and has been nominated for various accolades, including four Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Cooper appeared in "Forbes" Celebrity 100 on two occasions and "Time"'s list of 100 most influential people in the world in 2015.
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2008 K2 disaster The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on 1 August 2008, when 11 mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. Three others were seriously injured. The series of deaths, over the course of the Friday ascent and Saturday descent, was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering. Some of the specific details remain uncertain, with different plausible scenarios having been given about different climbers' timing and actions, when reported later via survivors' eyewitness accounts or via radio communications of climbers who died (sometimes minutes) later in the course of events on K2 that day.
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a documentary about Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mt. Everest in 1970. The film was produced by Canadian film maker Budge Crawley. Miura skied 6,600 feet (2000 m) in 2 minutes and 20 seconds and fell 1320 feet down the steep Lhotse face from the Yellow Band just below the South Col. He used a large parachute to slow his descent. He came to a full stop just 250 ft. from the edge of a bergschrund, a large, deep crevasse where the ice shears away from the stagnant ice on the rock face and begins to move downwards as a glacier.
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Ross Anderson (skier) Ross Anderson is a FIS World Cup/professional alpine skier as well as Native American speed skier. He broke the former Native American record in 1997 with a speed of 137.86 mph flying past the former record held by Stew Young from the Tulalip tribe with a speed of 131.73 mph at VARS France 1997." On April 19, 2006 he set a new page in recorded history by being the fastest alpine skier from the Western Hemisphere, at 154.06 mph (247.93 km/h); this places him 10th in the world all-time rankings.
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Bria Roberts (entertainer) Bria Roberts is an American entertainer. She is an actress and contortionist. She lives in Los Angeles, California. She was first seen portraying Betty on SpikeTV's "1000 Ways To Die" and then as a contortionist on TruTV's "Guinness World Records Unleashed". In 2016, she was interviewed on the "Today Show", and performed on the "Ellen DeGeneres Show". Bria portrayed Jedi J in "Exile: A Star Wars Story" and was part of the feature film "She Wants Me". Roberts has stated that she is Christian in interviews. She told the "Huffington Post", also called HuffPost, and AOL News that she first beat the record after briefly praying to the Lord Jesus.
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Bill Warner (motorcycle racer) William Walter "Bill" Warner (February 11, 1969 – July 14, 2013) was an American motorcycle racer who set the land speed record on a conventional motorcycle in 2011. He died while racing his motorcycle in 2013.
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George Lee Andrews George Lee Andrews (born October 13, 1942, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American actor and singer. He holds the Guinness World Record for the most performances in the same Broadway show, having appeared in the musical "Phantom of the Opera" on 9,382 occasions over a period of 23 years.
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John Keston John Keston (born Francis Douglas Arthur Caston, 5 December 1924) is an English-born actor and singer, and a world-record-holding runner.
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Veikka Gustafsson Eero Veikka Juhani Gustafsson, known as Veikka Gustafsson (born 14 January 1968) is a Finnish mountaineer who has ascended all 14 eight-thousanders in the world without the use of supplemental oxygen. In 1993 Gustafsson became the first Finnish person to have reached the top of Mount Everest. In the spring of 1997, he also became the first Finn to have reached the summit without the use of bottled oxygen.
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Arvind Mishra Arvind Mishra claimed the longest marathon lecture award confirmed by Guinness World Records. The journey to triumph began on 1 March 2014, and lasted for 139 hours 42 minutes and 49 seconds. The next to claim would be P.J. Francis Kunjuman who by 1 June broke the record in Holy Grace Academy, Mala of Thrissur district in Kerala, India. He will extend it more and the GWR has yet to approve it. (details provided by Thomas Alex).
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Domino Day Domino Day was a world record attempt for the highest number of toppling domino stones, organized from 1998 to 2009 by Endemol Netherlands. Together with Weijers Domino Productions of Robin Paul Weijers, also known as Mr. Domino, parties teamed up to set a new world record. The production was mainly organized at the WTC-Expo in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
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Ang Rita Ang Rita aka Angrita Sherpa (Nepali: आङ्गरिता शेर्पा ) is a mountain climber who has climbed Mount Everest ten times without the use of supplemental oxygen, and is thus known as "The Snow Leopard". When he made his sixth climb of Everest in 1990 he set the world record for the most number of successful ascents, eventually reaching 10 in 1996. He is a Sherpa born in 1948 in small village called Yillajung in eastern Nepal.