Competitors returned to Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire, England, for the annual cheese-rolling race on Monday. German YouTuber Tom Kopke won the men's downhill race for the seven-pound wheel of ...
It has captured imaginations for centuries, but no one really knows why people chase a wheel of Double Gloucester down Cooper's Hill. Each year in Gloucestershire, competitors hurl themselves down the ...
Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.
Every spring in Gloucestershire, England, a delegation of gravity's most ardent disciples gathers at the crest of Cooper's Hill and waits for a wheel of cheese to be sent tumbling down ahead of them.