Traditional Cooper’s Hill cheese roll goes down again

Each year a group of young men stand atop a steep hill, thinking of cheese.

Cooper’s Hill is the place, in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England.

The cheese is a 9 pound Double Gloucester in a wooden case. The men race down the hill trying to capture the cheese.

Often all they get are cuts and bruises—yet they still do it. And they have been doing it for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years.

Oh … and the ladies get their chance, too. This year 29-year-old Brockworth native Chris Anderson won. It was his record-tying 20th cheese-capture.

Brockworth is also home to 18-year-old Keavy Morgan, who won the women’s race.

It was her second win.