Hundreds of kilt-wearing skiers and snowboarders have set a new world record.

Some 235 snowboarders and skiers took part in the record bid from the Ptarmigan Top Station on CairnGorm Mountain, near Aviemore.

They have set a new record for the most people in kilts to go down a piste.

Money raised from the event will be donated to charity and a schools skiing programme.

Organisers described the event as a “fantastic spectacle” as the group crossed the finish line to the sound of two pipers and a drummer.

CairnGorm Mountain spokesman Colin Kirkwood said they wanted to something to celebrate the great ski season they were seeing.

According to Ski-Scotland, is it the best ski season the country has seen since 2001 with even more snow forecast, meaning the season could last through to May.

Mr Kirkwood said: “We’re delighted, it was a little cloudy overhead but it was a fantastic spectacle and people really enjoyed taking part.”

The British Olympic Association has joined forces with their American counterparts in what they describe as a groundbreaking agreement to cooperate ahead of the London 2012 Games and Sochi 2014 Winter Games

The BOA and USOC will also work together to develop youth and education programs for sport and recreation.

The bilateral agreement was signed this week in San Francisco by BOA chairman Lord Colin Moynihan and United States Olympic Committee Chairman Larry Probst having been finalised during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

One of the key points of the deal, announced by both national Olympic committees on Thursday will see the BOA and USOC take steps to relaunch a British governing body for skiing and snowboarding in the wake of the collapse of Snowsport GB, which went into administration a week before the Vancouver Games.

Other areas of cooperation will be the co-ordination of issues of mutual interest in planning for London 2012 and a commitment to help aspiring Olympic athletes and develop the wider Olympic movement.

“This is a groundbreaking agreement between two national Olympic committees with a shared commitment to support the growth of the Olympic Movement not only in our own countries, but worldwide,” Colin Moynihan said.

Concerning winter sports, the bilateral agreement calls for the BOA and USOC to: “explore partnership opportunities between British Ski and Snowboarding and the United States Ski and Snowboard Association to assist in the establishment of British Ski and Snowboarding as a model national governing body”.

“The special relationship between Great Britain and the United States has been bolstered by this agreement,” USOC Chairman Larry Probst said.

Winter Olympic gold medallist Lindsey Vonn has capped a sensational few weeks by having a ski run named after her.

The US skier, who won gold in the Ladies’ Downhill, and bronze in the Super G in Vancouver, will have a ski run at Vail ski resort named after her in recognition of her success.

The Colorado resort is where Vonn, the current World Cup leader, trains.

The black diamond “International” trail, used for both the 1989 and 1999 FIS World Alpine Ski Championship, will be known as “Lindsey’s”, it was confirmed.

Rob Katz, Vail Resorts Chairman and CEO, said: “Lindsey’s on Vail Mountain is a perfect location for her namesake trail.

“As a former race course and a groomed black diamond favourite for our guests, it is where future champions and everyday skiers alike can be inspired by Lindsey’s success. “

Two skiers have survived falling 2,000ft down a mountainside at the Scottish ski resort of Glencoe after a massive avalanche swept them from the summit of the 3,600ft peak.

The lucky pair, aged 26 and 23, had ventured to the edge of the Cam Ghleann area of the mountain when the snow sheet cracked, sweeping them more than half the way down the mountain followed by hundreds of tonnes of snow.

Both skiers had managed to stay on top of the avalanche as it thundered down the mountain, allowing them to dig themselves free once they had drawn to a halt in the Cam Ghleann valley.

John Grieve, leader of the Glencoe mountain rescue team, said: “They had taken the ski lift to the summit of the mountain and they skied to the edge just to look down to the area called the Cam Ghleann without any intention of skiing it.

“But just as they went to have a look – and literally 10ft from the the ski run – the whole area cracked about 100 yards either side of them.

“Luckily, they stayed on the top, so when it came to stop they were quite near the surface and they could dig each other out.”

Both men were airlifted from the scene to Belford Hospital, Fort William, where one was treated for a leg injury.

A woman spent nine hours in sub-zero temperatures with her son after losing their snowmobile group on an Icelandic glacier trip, it has been revealed.

Beata and Jeremy Scott, from Edinburgh, used their snowmobile as shelter after they lost their group on the glacier on Sunday, according to reports.

The pair were taken to hospital in Reykjavik after being rescued from the Langjokull glacier.

Mrs Scott told STV News at Six: “I was trying to shelter him from the wind. He’s a brave little boy, he started playing word games.”

Her husband Mike said he realised when the tour had finished that his wife and son were missing.

He told the programme: “They went off to try and find them. All the time the wind was getting stronger and I was very concerned because of my experience in hills in those sorts of conditions, they couldn’t see anything, to find somebody was going to be almost impossible and how was the rescue team going to get in – by walking.

“Those guys are just remarkable.”