"global perspective, the world's largest shopping mall, the South China Mall in Dongguan, China, contains approximately of shopping space in a complex that totals approximately . Although it features the usual amenities for a mall (a fourteen-screen movie theater, a gaming arena, a typical variety of stores, and a soon-to-be-completed dramatic theater), its biggest claim to fame is the Middle East's first indoor ski slope, Ski Dubai. With the ski area, one of the largest in the world, the Mall of the Emirates seeks to differentiate itself from the dozen or so other newly completed malls in Dubai and the"
"SnOasis SnOasis is a controversial proposed indoor winter sports resort in Great Blakenham near Ipswich, Suffolk UK currently scheduled to open in 2020. It is planned be the largest real snow indoor ski slope in the world with a 415 metre long slope, 70 metre wide run, and a 100 metre drop; accommodating 1000 skiers per hour. There are several comparable slopes, including one at Neuss, Germany, but none have a vertical drop of 100 metres and the overall ski area of SnOasis will be more than double that of any other indoor ski slope in the world. The project"
"130,000 trees to act as a carbon sink. SnOasis SnOasis is a controversial proposed indoor winter sports resort in Great Blakenham near Ipswich, Suffolk UK currently scheduled to open in 2020. It is planned be the largest real snow indoor ski slope in the world with a 415 metre long slope, 70 metre wide run, and a 100 metre drop; accommodating 1000 skiers per hour. There are several comparable slopes, including one at Neuss, Germany, but none have a vertical drop of 100 metres and the overall ski area of SnOasis will be more than double that of any other"
"Snow Arena The Snow Arena is an indoor ski slope in Druskininkai, Lithuania. It was opened on August 26, 2011. It is one of the biggest indoor skiing slopes in the world, with the slope length of 460 m, width 50 m and height difference of 65.65 m and 150 m beginner slope. The indoor ski area is divided into two segments: terrain park and ski slope. A seasonal outdoor route of 640 m is also available when the average outdoor temperatures fall below +5°C. Snow at Snow Arena is made by using PowderStar Series technology. Water and air are"
"The world's first commercial indoor ski slope operated from 1987 to 2005 at Mount Thebarton, in Adelaide, South Australia. Indoor skiing Indoor skiing is done in a climate-controlled environment with snowmaking. This enables skiing and snowboarding to take place regardless of outdoor temperatures. Facilities for both alpine skiing and nordic skiing are available. The first known ski hall, called ""Schneepalast"" (German: Snow Palace) was opened in the Austrian capital Vienna in 1927 in the abandoned Vienna Northwest Railway Station established by the Danish ski jumper Dagfinn Carlsen. The track in the 3000 square meter ski area was built on a"
"Chill Factore Chill Factor is the UK's longest indoor ski slope; a £31M real snow centre located in the Trafford Park area of Trafford, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. Designed by FaulknerBrowns Architects, the centre opened in November 2007 at which time it was the widest in the world, at long and wide at its widest point. In 2011, the Guinness World Record for the longest chain of skiers to travel 100m without breaking, was recorded at Chill Factor. In May 2011, Chill Factor hosted the UK's first Snowbombing event. In 2018, Chill Factor rebranded as BEYOND, a new retail, experiential"
"SSAWS SSAWS, pronounced and officially known as , was an indoor ski slope in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan. The name was an acronym of ""Spring Summer Autumn Winter Snow"". Constructed by Mitsui at a cost of US$400 million, the ski slope opened on July 15, 1993. With a structural height of 100 meters (translating to a skiable vertical drop of 80 m), a width of 100 m and a length of 500 m, it was the largest indoor ski slope in the world at the time. The complex had three ski courses—20.1° for skilled skiers, 15° for intermediate, and 10° for"
"Whistler Blackcomb Whistler Blackcomb is a ski resort located in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. By many measures it is the largest ski resort in North America and has the greatest uphill lift capacity. It features the Peak 2 Peak Gondola for moving between Whistler and Blackcomb mountains at the top. With all of this capacity, Whistler Blackcomb is also often the busiest ski resort, often besting 2 million visitors a year. Whistler was originally conceived as part of a bid to win the 1968 Winter Olympics. Although the bid failed, construction started anyway and the resort opened for the first"
"Snowdome The Snowdome is an indoor ski slope just off the A5 road in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. It opened in May 1994 and was the first full-sized recreational indoor ski slope in the UK. The slope is long by wide with an incline of around 1:7. There are also 2 serial 'travelator' lifts for access back to the top and one rope-tow. The Snowdome has a learner slope underneath the main slope. The main slope also holds regular 'ramp nights' in which several objects are added, including a gas pipe, mini rail and a quarter pipe. There is also one"
"Snowdome The Snowdome is an indoor ski slope just off the A5 road in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. It opened in May 1994 and was the first full-sized recreational indoor ski slope in the UK. The slope is long by wide with an incline of around 1:7. There are also 2 serial 'travelator' lifts for access back to the top and one rope-tow. The Snowdome has a learner slope underneath the main slope. The main slope also holds regular 'ramp nights' in which several objects are added, including a gas pipe, mini rail and a quarter pipe. There is also one"
"World Waterpark World Waterpark is a water park located at West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is the world's largest shopping and entertainment complex as well as the world's largest tourist attraction. Opened to the public in 1986, it is the largest indoor water park in North America. It has a maximum capacity of about 5,000 guests, an average air temperature of , and also contains the world's largest indoor wave pool with a capacity of 12.5 million litres. The highest slides in the park are Twister and Cyclone, which are both high. This wave pool has four"
"Indoor skiing Indoor skiing is done in a climate-controlled environment with snowmaking. This enables skiing and snowboarding to take place regardless of outdoor temperatures. Facilities for both alpine skiing and nordic skiing are available. The first known ski hall, called ""Schneepalast"" (German: Snow Palace) was opened in the Austrian capital Vienna in 1927 in the abandoned Vienna Northwest Railway Station established by the Danish ski jumper Dagfinn Carlsen. The track in the 3000 square meter ski area was built on a wooden ramp. A ski jump made it possilbe to jump up to 20 meters. The skiers had to walk"
"Nansen Ski Jump Nansen Ski Jump, also known as The Big Nansen and The Sleeping Giant, is a ski jump located along Route 16 in Milan, New Hampshire. Built in 1936, it was the largest ski jump of its time. It is now within Nansen Ski Jump State Historic Site, a New Hampshire state park, which also features a picnic area and boat launch on the Androscoggin River. The Nansen Ski Jump is just north of the Berlin city line. It was constructed in 1936 by the city of Berlin and the National Youth Administration and was once the largest"
"Pine Mountain Jump The Pine Mountain Ski Jump is one of the highest artificially created ski jumps in the world, located in Iron Mountain, Michigan, Dickinson County. It is part of the Kiwanis Ski Club and hosts annual FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup competitions. ""Pine Mountain Slide is known throughout the world as one of the better jumping hills."" Annually in February, it ""hosts jumpers from around the world at the best tournament in the United States."" Top-rated foreign jumpers compete. Currently (excluding ski flying hills) Pine Mountain holds the U.S. records for the longest jump in World Cup competition"
"Glasgow; Noeux les Mines in northern France (pictured above); Valladolid in Spain. There are many minor training installations around the world including Olympic training centres in the USA, Switzerland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Germany, Finland etc. Many other full scale installations can be seen around the world, including France as mentioned previously, Turkey (where the worlds largest synthetic slope is currently installedin Ankara), South Africa, and the USA. Installations in the United States can be seen at the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre near Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, the YMCA of the Rockies in Colorado and at Wolfe Mountain Snowflex slope"
"a restaurant called Eten Enzo. SnowWorld was the first indoor ski slope made of real snow in Europe, opened in 1996. It now has three slopes, of which the slope is the longest. Plans are being made to extend this to . Already open since December 2016. SnowWorld attracts over a million visitors each year, making it the most important tourist attraction in Zoetermeer. Dutch Water Dreams (DWD) is an artificial Olympic wild water rafting circuit. It is a copy of the one built in China for the 2008 Olympic Games and is mainly used for training by European rafting"
"Guidant John Rose Minnesota Oval The Guidant John Rose Minnesota Oval, formerly the John Rose Minnesota Oval, is an outdoor ice rink in Roseville, Minnesota, United States. It is claimed to be the largest artificial outdoor skating surface in North America. The facility was constructed from June to December 1993. The rink consists of a concrete surface (a 400-meter track surrounding an infield ice arena) with of embedded cooling tubes and an 800-ton refrigeration system. When the temperature is above —the highest temperature at which an icy surface can be maintained—the concrete surface can be used for inline skating. The"
"Nordquist, the oldest ski jumper in Sochi"". Letalnica bratov Gorišek Letalnica bratov Gorišek () is a ski flying hill and the biggest of eight hills located at the Planica Nordic Centre in Planica, Slovenia. It was built in 1969 and is named after the original constructors and brothers Vlado (also known as Lado) and Janez Gorišek. With a total of 28 world records set it is the world leading ski jump hill in this statistic. The world's steepest zip-line with average incline of 38.33% (20.9°) and maximum incline of 58.7% (30.5°) incline opened at the hill on 19 September 2015."
"including Squaw Valley. Squaw Valley Ski Resort Squaw Valley Ski Resort in Olympic Valley, California, is one of the largest ski areas in the United States, and was the host site of the entire 1960 Winter Olympics. It is the second-largest ski area in Lake Tahoe after Heavenly, with 30 chairlifts, and the only funitel in the U.S. Since Squaw Valley joined forces with Alpine Meadows in 2012, the resorts offer joint access to , 43 lifts and over 270 trails. The resort attracts approximately 600,000 skiers a year. Located west of Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada with a"
"Galaxyland Galaxyland, previously known as Fantasyland, is an indoor amusement park. Located in the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the biggest mall in North America, it is home to the world's tallest (14 stories) and longest indoor roller coaster, the Mindbender. It is also home to the Space Shot, the world's tallest indoor tower ride, at . Galaxyland was originally known as Fantasyland from 1983 to 1995. However, the name Fantasyland was already used for one of the theme lands existing in Disneyland and other theme parks, like the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World, Hong Kong Disneyland,"
"Edinburgh International Climbing Arena Edinburgh International Climbing Arena (EICA:Ratho, formerly the Ratho Adventure Centre) is an adventure sports facility located in Ratho, near Edinburgh, Scotland. Built in a disused quarry, it is the largest indoor climbing wall in the world. Financial problems months after it opened in December 2003 put the Arena into receivership. It was purchased by the City of Edinburgh Council and fully reopened in May 2007 after a further programme of works costing around . The centre is now used by both recreational climbers and for competitions, and is also home to the Scottish National Judo Academy."
"need for additional funding, and no mention of the LeisureDome proposals appear on the information provided by St. Modwen Properties, the developers about their plans for Locking Parklands as the site is now known. The plans approved by North Somerset Council include a indoor ski slope, a climbing wall, a vertical wind tunnel for indoor skydiving, indoor surfing, a BMX track, a health and fitness club, and a number of shops and restaurants. The ski slope will be the longest in the United Kingdom, and the climbing wall will be the tallest of its kind in the World. In total"
"ski jumping hill. The hill selected was located in Mount Revelstoke National Park near Revelstoke, British Columbia. It would allow for world-record jumps, and the natural inclination of the hill allowed this to be done without an artificial tower. As the site was located within the national park, a lease was obtained, which was financed through a $1,200 grant from the chamber of commerce and the municipality. Revelstoke was the largest town in the British Columbia Interior at the time, and easily accessible due to its location on the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline. Big Hill was first used for the"
"access the top of the inrun via an elevator. In 2013, following almost two decades of disuse as a sporting venue, it was announced that the hill at Copper Peak would be renovated as the world's largest ski jumping hill, additionally capable of staging summer events. With eight years between Fijas and Höllwarth's world records, it was the longest drought of unbroken records since that of Tauno Luiro from 1951 was broken by Jože Šlibar in 1961. The margin between Höllwarth and Nieminen's world records was , the largest since Sepp Weiler and Dan Netzell in 1950, which was ."
"up the artificial mountain, because there was no skilift. However sledges could be pulled up with an electrically operated system. The artificial snow had been made by the English experimenter James Ayscough from soda. The operation of the hall, however, took place only until May 1928. Australia Belgium China France Germany Japan Lithuania Netherlands New Zealand Norway Russia Spain United Arab Emirates Egypt United Kingdom United States The first indoor ski slope, ""Schneepalast"" (German for snow palace) operated from 26 November 1927 to May 1928 in Vienna in an abandoned railway station, the Nordwestbahnhof. The snow was made of soda."
"Shymbulak Shymbulak (, ""Шымбұлақ""), also known as Chimbulak () is a ski resort near Almaty. It is the largest ski resort in Central Asia. It is located in the upper part of the Medeu Valley in the Zaiilisky Alatau mountain range, at an elevation of above sea level. The resort area is about south of Almaty city by Medeo road. It is popular for its mild climate, large quantity of sunny days and great amount of snow through the winter (from November till May). Shymbulak (also known as ""Chimbulak"") was disscovered by amateur skiers in the 1940s. Soon after, it"
"Snowflake Ski Jump The Snowflake Ski Jump, a ski jumping hill located north of Westby, Wisconsin, United States, in Timber Coulee, is host to a ski jumping tournament taking place annually since 1961. The hill, currently seventh largest in North America, is a large hill, which means it has a K-spot of 106 meters. The current official record of 130.0 meters was achieved by Fredrik Bjerkeengen of Norway on February 10, 2008. Snowflake has hosted numerous FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup and United States Ski and Snowboard Association tournaments. Currently, after hosting SuperTour events in 2009 and 2010, the ski"
"as the inside of each house. Some of the most popular and nicest beaches in Dubai are Umm Suqeim Beach, Al Mamzar Beach Park, JBR Open Beach, Kite Beach, Black Palace Beach and Royal Island Beach Club. Ski Dubai is a large indoor skiing facility at Mall of the Emirates, offering snowboarding, ski lessons, a children's play area and a café. It opened in November 2005 and houses the world's largest indoor snow park. It is operated by Majid Al Futtaim Leisure & Entertainment. On 2 November 2011, four cities had their bids for Expo 2020 already lodged, with Dubai"
"buried in snow. Big White Ski Resort Big White Ski Resort, or simply Big White, is a ski resort located southeast of Kelowna in the Southern Interior of British Columbia. Located on Big White Mountain, the highest summit in the Okanagan Highland, an upland area between the Monashee Mountains and the Okanagan Valley, it is the third largest resort in British Columbia, after Whistler-Blackcomb and Sun Peaks. The mountain summit is at with a vertical drop of , serviced by 16 lifts. The mountain receives 750 cm of annual snowfall. It has of overall skiable terrain. With of night skiing,"
"only 1. Utah Olympic Oval The Utah Olympic Oval is an indoor speed skating oval located southwest of Salt Lake City, in Kearns, Utah. The Oval was built for the 2002 Winter Olympics and it hosted the long track speed skating events for the 2002 games. Inside the facility the 400 meter skating track surrounds two international sized ice sheets, and is itself surrounded by a 442 meter running track. Due to its high altitude, , and the associated low air resistance, ten Olympic records and nine world records were set at the Oval during the 2002 games, the largest"
"Wielka Krokiew Wielka Krokiew (""The Great Krokiew"", in Polish ""krokiew"" means ""rafter"") is the one - the biggest - of ski jumps built on the slope of Krokiew mountain (1378 m) in Zakopane, Poland. It was opened in 1925. From 1989 the ski jump bears the official name Wielka Krokiew im. Stanisława Marusarza. It is a regular venue in the FIS Ski jumping World Cup. The capacity of the ski jumping stadium is 40,000. The hill was featured in competitions at the 1939 and 1962 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships as well as the 2001 Universiade. In 1997, Pope John"
"Sheffield Ski Village Sheffield Ski Village was an artificial ski slope complex in the Parkwood Springs area of Sheffield, England which operated from 1988 until it was destroyed by fire in 2012. It was believed to be the largest artificial ski resort in Europe with a sports shop, bar, restaurant and a range of slopes which included a Snowflex nursery slope, a dendix recreational slope and a freestyle park consisting of a half pipe, hip jump, kicker, a quarter pipe and various grind rails. The first slope at the ski village opened in October 1988. The ski village proved popular"
"Squaw Valley Ski Resort Squaw Valley Ski Resort in Olympic Valley, California, is one of the largest ski areas in the United States, and was the host site of the entire 1960 Winter Olympics. It is the second-largest ski area in Lake Tahoe after Heavenly, with 30 chairlifts, and the only funitel in the U.S. Since Squaw Valley joined forces with Alpine Meadows in 2012, the resorts offer joint access to , 43 lifts and over 270 trails. The resort attracts approximately 600,000 skiers a year. Located west of Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada with a base of and"