May 6, 2011

Eric MacKenzie
eric@whistlerquestion.com

Think you had a busy ski season? There’s a pretty good chance that Stephanie Jagger’s got you beat.

The 30-year-old Vancouver resident broke the Guinness World Record for most vertical feet skied in one year, breaking the old mark of 4,146,890 feet on Thursday afternoon (May 5) on Blackcomb Mountain.

“I was having these panic attacks about falling on the last run,” she laughed. “I took it pretty slow and (broke the record) around twelve-thirty.

“I had some people to call… and had lunch and a boozey coffee to celebrate.”

Jagger, who considers Whistler Blackcomb her home ski area, traveled the world since July and skied on five continents while racking up the distance needed to set the new record before returning home to B.C. to break the record.

Jagger said she expects her final total to come in at approximately 14,000 feet more than the previous record, which was originally set by a British man in 1994.

As of Friday, Jagger was still awaiting confirmation from Guinness that she would be proclaimed the new official record-holder. She is expected to learn one way or the other before the end of the month.