Adam Vinatieri’s Guinness record: How did he kick at 11,317 feet?

Adam Vinatieri has never needed a normal setting to make a memorable kick. More than six years after his final NFL appearance, the Pro Football Hall of Famer found himself standing on snow in the Swiss Alps, thousands of feet above sea level, with the wind moving around him. Then came the familiar routine. A short run-up, clean contact and the ball sailing between the uprights. At 53, Vinatieri had found another way to make football history.Adam Vinatieri makes history at 11,332 feetOn September 22, Vinatieri travelled to Jungfraujoch in Switzerland, a mountain destination widely known as the “Top of Europe.” There, at an altitude of 3,454 metres, or about 11,332 feet above sea level, he successfully converted a 33-yard field goal and earned recognition for the highest-altitude American football field goal.