She just needed her high resolution photo.Ĭivil engineer Jim Sysko said, “As soon as we put the eyelashes up (16 alpine skis) everybody said, ‘Wow.'”īoth snowpeople had car tire mouths, skidder tire buttons, arms made of 25-foot spruce trees, and fabric hats that were 16 feet (Olympia) and 20 feet (Angus) in diameter made by middle school students. “It was a head-scratch moment when I went blank on what I was doing.” She asked Jessop for more details about the disqualification of Riesi, but she had none. contacted her in November 2021 for a photo of Olympia for its annual book. Perkins found out about the redaction when researcher Alice Jessop of Guinness World Records Ltd. “The whole town, the whole state, the whole everywhere, if you Google it, everything says our record was broken,” Jessie Perkins, executive director of the Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce, said. Guinness then disqualified Riesi and the crown was triumphantly returned to Olympia and Bethel. But soon after it all came crashing down for the Austrians.

Someone standing triumphantly, arm in air, was perched on Riesi’s black stovepipe hat.

Caretaker Gerhard Peer and ski-lift manager Erwin Petz of Ski Riesneralm constructed Riesi in 2020 and Guinness declared it to be the new world record holder at 38.04 meters.

Snowman ice skating game