[WORLDKINGS] The Constant World Records Seeking Journey (P.281) Lac des Toules (Switzerland): World's first mountainous solar farm
10-04-2022
(worldkings.org) The Lac des Toules power plant is located on the Lac des Toules reservoir in Valais, Switzerland, at an altitude of 1,800 metres above sea level. This is the world's first project of its kind at a similar altitude. On April 16th, 2022, World Records Union (WorldKings) officially declared Lac des Toules as “World's first mountainous solar farm”.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Asia Records Institute (ASRI) – Kim Hong-bin: First disabled person to climb all of the world's 14 mountains over 8,000 meters
11-10-2021
(WorldKings.org) In 2021, he became the first disabled person to climb all of the world's 14 mountains over 8,000 meters. Kim reached the summit of the 8,047-meter-high Broad Peak, located in Pakistan's Karakoram Range, at 4:58 p.m. Sunday (local time), becoming the world's first person with a disability to accomplish such a feat.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Asia Records Institute (ASRI) - Mila Mountain Tunnel: The world's highest road tunnel
14-09-2021
(WorldKings.org) The world's highest road tunnel is at an altitude of over 4,750 meters above sea level in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The two-way tunnel is over 5.7 km long, which is a part of the 400-km highway linking the regional capital of Lhasa with Nyingchi in the southeast of Tibet.
[WorldKings – World Almanac Event 2021] 114th anniversary of establishment of Jasper National Park (September 14, 1907 - September 14, 2021)
14-09-2021
(Worldkings.org) Jasper National Park is a national park in Alberta, Canada. It is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains spanning 11,000 km2 (4,200 sq mi).
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Semmering Railway: World's first true mountain railway
04-09-2021
(Worldkings.org) The Semmering railway in Austria, which starts at Gloggnitz and leads over the Semmering to Mürzzuschlag, was the first mountain railway in Europe built with a standard gauge track.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Asia Records Institute (ASRI) - Gangkhar Puensum: The highest unclimbed mountain in the world
30-08-2021
(WorldKings.org) Since 1994, climbing of mountains in Bhutan higher than 6,000 metres has been prohibited out of respect for local spiritual beliefs, and since 2003 mountaineering has been forbidden completely. Gangkhar Puensum may keep its unique status for some time.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Asia Records Institute (ASRI) - Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Golf Club: The longest golf course in the world
25-08-2021
(WorldKings.org) Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Golf Club is situated at 3100 meters (10,800 ft.) above see level, the second highest in the world and the highest in Asia. It is 7,816 meters long, which is longest par 72 golf course in the world. Thanks to the elevation of 3000 meters (10,000 ft.) the ball flies some 15%-20% farther than normal on this golf course.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - America Records Institute (AMRI) – Mount Washington Cog Railway: World's first mountain-climbing cog railway
12-08-2021
(Worldkings.org) The railway is approximately 3 miles (5 km) long and ascends Mount Washington's western slope, beginning at an elevation of approximately 2,700 feet (820 m) above sea level and ending just short of the mountain's summit peak of 6,288 feet (1,917 m).
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - America Records Institute (AMRI) – Stone Mountain: World's largest bas-relief artwork
14-07-2021
(Worldkings.org) This bas relief sculpture depicts the three main Confederate leaders of the American Civil War - namely President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and their favourite horses, "Blackjack", "Traveller", and "Old Sorrel", respectively).
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - America Records Institute (AMRI) – Crazy Horse Memorial: World's largest mountain carving
01-06-2021
(Worldkings.org) It depicts the Oglala Lakota warrior, Crazy Horse, riding a horse and pointing to his tribal land. The memorial was commissioned by Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, to be sculpted by Korczak Ziolkowski.
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