Giant rotating hamster wheels aim to ‘revolutionize’ indoor skiing
An Australian company is preparing to roll out a series of giant, rotating ski barrels designed to make the experience of carving endless fresh snow available to city folk without a long drive. We talk to Snowtunnel co-founder and CEO Scott Kessler.
Indoor ski training is nothing new – but the space and cost requirements of a state-of-the-art indoor ski slope are getting pretty extreme. Take the mammoth facility under construction in Shenzhen, China, which features a 441 m (1,447 ft) ski slope covering an area equivalent to 11 soccer fields, complete with ski lifts ready to tow visitors up the 83 m (272 ft) vertical climb to the starting line.