Almost two thousand people descended on the Russian ski resort of Sheregesh over the weekend wearing nothing but swimming costumes, in a bid to break one of the world's more eye-catching Guinness records.
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About 1,830 skiers and boarders took to the slopes on Saturday to set a new record for the number of people taking part in a so-called “bikini-descent” as part of the Grelka Fest ski festival, organizers said on their website.
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Video footage uploaded to YouTube shows hundreds of brave men and women dressed in nothing but their bikinis and swimming trunks racing down a 500-meter slope at Sheregesh, a resort in southern Russia.
The record for the number of people taking part in a “bikini-descent” was set at the same resort in 2013, when 500 people braved the cold, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
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The organizers of the event have since filed an application with the Guinness Book of World Records to try to register the new record.
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