Alpine skiing

At 29,029 feet (8,848 meters), Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world in terms of altitude. However, the tallest mountain is actually Mauna Kea in Hawaii, which measures 33,480 feet (10,205 m) from its underwater base to its peak, according to Guinness World Records. (Most of Mauna Kea is underwater.) Everest is located at the border of Nepal to the south and China or Tibet on the north. It is over 60 million years old. Everest was formed by the movement of the Indian tectonic…

believed that you could eventually achieve anything with repeated hard work and learning from failure” (Barraclough). Mikaela Shiffrin and her family had the growth mindset, which ultimately helped get her to the elite level. The eighteen year old alpine ski racing prodigy’s dad summed up their approach, “Some people might call our approach intense. But it’s not, because the motivation is not to be better than other people at something. The motivation comes from a belief that almost anything can…