Mike Foote spent St. Patrick’s Day skiing over 61,000 vertical feet
While the rest of America was donning green and clinking glasses of Guinness, Mike Foote, a 34-year-old ultra runner and ski mountaineer from Missoula, Montana, was spending his St. Patrick’s Day a little differently.
Skinning up the face of Ed’s Run at Whitefish Mountain Resort, Foote was attempting to break the world record for the most vertical feet climbed and skied in 24 hours. The standing record, held by Austrian skimo racer … More