Hot Heels

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Hot Heels was the name of a downhill "gravity sports" event held in the Kaunertal Valley in the western Austrian Alps from 1993 to 2003. It showcased some of the best, fastest and most extreme gravity sports racing ever seen, and was seen by many as the blue riband event of gravity sports. Competitions were held in classic luge (aka "buttboarding"), street luge, and downhill skateboarding, along with some other gravity sports such as downhill inline skating, gravity biking, and dirtsurfing. Street luge racers reached speeds of more than 70mph (110km/h) down the twisty two-and-a-half mile hairpin-strewn mountain road below the valley reservoir. Racers from all over the world, including representatives of countries as far away as Brazil, Argentina, Canada and Singapore, attended, with winners' podiums made by, among others, German, Austrian, American, British, French, Swiss, Australian, South African, and Italian riders.