There is also plenty of skiing, snowboarding and cross-country skiing to be done elsewhere in the country, where the mountains may not soar as high as the Alps, but assets include cheaper prices, smaller crowds and a less frenetic atmosphere.
When the new poverty report from Census comes out this month, The Huffington Post reports a consensus survey of experts indicates poverty could soar to as high as 15.7%, a record since the War on Poverty began in 1965.
All of these performers have pushed the very limits of human ability, whether it be to test how fast humans can fall, how high they can soar or how many times they can spin around on a bicycle without using their hands.