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It’s a pile of mining waste. Want to go skiing on it? (Video)

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The Monte Kaolino. Image credit: H.Helmlechner via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0


If you have a mountain of waste – literally – what can you do about it?

Monte Kaolino. Image credit: H.Helmlechner via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Monte Kaolino. Image credit: H.Helmlechner via WikimediaCC BY-SA 4.0

YouTuber Tom Scott has an idea – if this mountain is high enough, you can use it to skiing. Of course, this implies that this waste cannot be toxic or harmful in any other way. This is exactly the case with celebrities Monte Kaolinoin Bavaria, Germany.

Here, about 35 million tons of quartz sand have been piled up over the years from a nearby kaolin mine. Watch in the following video how this local attraction has transformed from “just trash” in the 1960s to a theme park destination for skaters and skiers: