Cheese rolling: an ancient Celtic rite? Another cheese roll and wake is behind us. Our UK correspondent, Liz Williams, reports from Cooper’s Hill and raises some hypothesized Celtic origins of the festival.

https://wildhunt.org/2023/06/cheese-rolling-an-ancient-celtic-rite.html

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Cheese Rolling at Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire, England on 29-May-2023. Twenty competitors chase a wheel of cheese down a very steep hill.

Story & MorePics: https://bryan-jones.com/2023-coopers-hill-cheese-rolling/

#cheese #CheeseRolling #CoopersHill #quirky #danger #race #tradition #Brockworth #Gloucestershire #England #exetremesport #countryside #sport

Never give up, even if you're out cold.

Every year, for approximately the last 600 years, the legendary "Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling Race" takes place in Brockworth, near Gloucester, England. Participants chase a wheel of (what else) Gloucester Cheese that is rolled down the hill. The event attracts people from all over the world.

A 19 year old Canadian woman fell and hit her head while chasing the 7 pounds of rolling cheese, rendering her unconscious. Only after she came to, did she discover that she had one the race.

Congratulations to Delaney Irving from Vancouver Island, BC.
Winner, winner.. cheese dinner?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-65748124

#cheese #Uk #CoopersHill #Gloucester #England #Brockworth
Hopefully no #HeadInjury

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I found some footage from the 1987 #CheeseRoll at #CoopersHill, #Gloucester from the #Dutch #BeeldEnGeluid (images and sound) archives: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FoCpZwxXfe4
Video contents warning: people tumbling and getting injured while trying to run after a wheel of #cheese.

But bloody hell, that is one steep hill!