Monuments to Human Achievement Series, No.2
As Reported in the New York Times earlier this week:
20 Year old x-treme sportist, Cheese Headstand, announced on Tuesday his intention to be the youngest and first person to grind the entire Alps mountain range.
Cheese Headstand pictured in front of section of custom Alpine Handrail.
"Yeah, so see all that, I'm gonna grind it." said the presumably excited young Headstand.
The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west. The highest mountain in the Alps is Mont Blanc at 4,808 m on the French-Italian border. From this summit, Hedstand will begin his x-treme decent.
The rail covers a total of 243 miles and reaches angles of up to 45 degrees at certain points.
"Yeah, so I'm not sayin' it's gonna be easy, I'm just sayin it's gonna be awesome, and I'm gonna do it."
Cheese will be grinding on a custom handrail made out of antique Ferraris and original Wright Brothers aircraft. The construction of the rail was begun in 1903 by Cheese's Great Grandfather, Elbow Headstand. The rail was initially built with Timber, but with the increased availability of Ferraris and Antique Aircraft, the timber was eventually replaced.
Elbow Headstand was an American pioneer of X-treme Sports; paving the way for his Great Grandson's generation to do some insane shit.
photo of Elbow circa 1912. Assuredly X-treme for his time.
"Yeah, so my Great Grandpa, Elbow Headstand started building the rail when he was like 28. It was his dream to grind it, but they hadn't even started grinding big shit like that back then, so he never got to; never occurred to him."
Headstand is slated for his first attempt in November.
Headstand re-articulated his confidence, "Yeah!"
From the Archives:
workers clearing a mountain pass.
immigrant workers constructing the rail.
Immigrant laborers were hired for 3 cents every two days to help construct the rail. Hundreds lost their lives working under such x-treme conditions.
20 Year old x-treme sportist, Cheese Headstand, announced on Tuesday his intention to be the youngest and first person to grind the entire Alps mountain range.
Cheese Headstand pictured in front of section of custom Alpine Handrail.
"Yeah, so see all that, I'm gonna grind it." said the presumably excited young Headstand.
The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west. The highest mountain in the Alps is Mont Blanc at 4,808 m on the French-Italian border. From this summit, Hedstand will begin his x-treme decent.
The rail covers a total of 243 miles and reaches angles of up to 45 degrees at certain points.
"Yeah, so I'm not sayin' it's gonna be easy, I'm just sayin it's gonna be awesome, and I'm gonna do it."
Cheese will be grinding on a custom handrail made out of antique Ferraris and original Wright Brothers aircraft. The construction of the rail was begun in 1903 by Cheese's Great Grandfather, Elbow Headstand. The rail was initially built with Timber, but with the increased availability of Ferraris and Antique Aircraft, the timber was eventually replaced.
Elbow Headstand was an American pioneer of X-treme Sports; paving the way for his Great Grandson's generation to do some insane shit.
photo of Elbow circa 1912. Assuredly X-treme for his time.
"Yeah, so my Great Grandpa, Elbow Headstand started building the rail when he was like 28. It was his dream to grind it, but they hadn't even started grinding big shit like that back then, so he never got to; never occurred to him."
Headstand is slated for his first attempt in November.
Headstand re-articulated his confidence, "Yeah!"
From the Archives:
workers clearing a mountain pass.
immigrant workers constructing the rail.
Immigrant laborers were hired for 3 cents every two days to help construct the rail. Hundreds lost their lives working under such x-treme conditions.
posted by Al Truism at 7:51 PM
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