• Dave Schaut claims that an employee at the Beaver Creek ski resort saw him grinding a rail on his skis and encouraged him to go for a Guinness World Record title.
• The minimum rail length required was five meters, or 16.4 feet long.
• Also, the rail had to be wider than 12 inches.

After grinding a ski rail for the first time at the age of 65, a skier from Colorado earned the title of the oldest person to hold the Guinness World Record.

Dave Schaut, a local of Avon, claims that an employee at the Beaver Creek ski resort saw him grinding a rail on his skis and was the one who encouraged him to go for a Guinness World Record title.

According to Schaut, Guinness does not currently have a category for the oldest skier to grind a rail; nevertheless, the organisation has agreed to create a new record for him.

“No one had the record before me. I was the first in the category, so Guinness World Records created the category for me,” According to the local media.

He stated that officials from Guinness came up with certain parameters for his quest to break the record.

“The minimum rail length required was five meters, or 16.4 feet long — longer than I was used to. Also, the rail couldn’t be wider than 12 inches. At first, it was hard to find a suitable rail, until Beaver Creek put up a 25-footer, or a rail 7.5 meters in their park. I decided to use that rail to satisfy the record, even though it was 8 feet longer than necessary,” Schaut remarked.

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