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Everesting?


          what is everesting? pick a hill any hill Everesting is an activity in which cyclists or runners ascend and descend a given hill multiple times, in order to have cumulatively climbed 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) (the elevation of mount Everest) The first event described as "Everesting" was done by George Mallory, the grandson of George Mallory, who died on Everest in 1924. By strange coincidence I just recently finished reading a fascinating account of those early attempts on Everest, called into the silence by wade Davis – I can’t recommend it highly enough an excellent read, The younger Mallory ascended Mount Donna Buang in 1994, having ridden eight "laps" of the 1,069-metre hill. The format and rules were then cemented by Andy van Bergen, inspired by the story of Mallory's effort, In the first official group effort, van Bergen organized 65 riders, 40 of whom finished the Everesting attempt, the Australian cyclist Andy van Bergen, who completed his initial challenge on Mount Buller in Victoria in February 2014 The writer and cyclist was keen to popularizing the idea through the Hells 500 group, which had been created as a social group to allow its members to complete and share cycling challenges. Hells 500 created the Everesting website, which established the parameters of the challenge, and started documenting attempts It began as a cycling challenge and continues to be most popular with cyclists, but; there’s also an equally tough running challenge, Everesting Run, which is growing in popularity

The record for running an Everesting has changed hands regularly and it looks like it will continue to change! here is an account from a previous record holder -Danish runner Simon Grimstrup set a new "Everesting" world record. He took just 10 hours, 45 minutes and 14 seconds to cover the height of the Mt Everest by running repeatedly on a hill near his home. Simon ran one hill near Ry 202 times to reach the equivalent summit height of 8848m. He ran a total distance of 50km to set the new official Everesting run record. Simon’s run was non-shuttled, which means he ran or walked down the hill after every ascent. His chosen hill was 130 metres long with 44 metres of elevation gain In an interview with the Vietnam Trail Series (VTS),he is reported as saying: "I was not sure I would get the world record until the last two laps. I was worried that I would fall on the downhill.” He beat the previous Everesting world record by 16 minutes. He added in the interview: “It was the hardest, stupidest, most epic thing I have ever done.” • Keen to try Everesting? • For a run to count, athletes must run on one hill, rather than a hilly route with multiple summits. It doesn’t matter how steep or how long the hill is, and the official rules state that “essentially anything that has a vertical gain can be used”. • Everesting attempts do not allow runners to sleep and even a nap will mean the attempt is discounted. • When it comes to ascending and descending the chosen hill, a runner can choose whether to run down after each lap or get a ride down (whether that’s in a car, on a bike or any other form of transport). Because of this option, there are two Everesting run records: "shuttled" and "non-shuttled Sometimes when out on my daily runs I look at hills and think that (or that) would be great for an Everesting attempt! It certainly would be great training for the CWU, which gradient and for how high a hill would be mega important factors for me, I may look at stairs as a better option, I seen a fella do his Everesting on his house stairs during lockdown, I regularly put my weights vest on and do twenty laps of my house stairs for training, and; I also use the stairs in polmont woods regularly, I sense a plan forming - if only I had some training pals or even just pals would help lol, I don’t want to do this alone, but it could be fun, would stairs be easier than hills for an Everesting?

Stairs Whilst living in Aberdeen for a few months over eight years ago, I was doing twelve-hour days in an office, then I always went out for a run every night. The place I was staying was in the heart of the city above the harbour area just of busy union street, I discovered some great runs around the city during that time - along to the dee or the don and back, for my hill training I chose a set of stairs near where I was staying, I would take a gentle jog out to the top of these stairs then run up and down as quickly as I could for as long as I could, its an extremely hard work out which I was made to feel a bit pants at, after telling to fellow runners in the office of my stairs! Stu & FX were both better runners than me and much younger, I was managing around eight flat out on my top effort, Stu smashed that to 14, then FX blew us both out the water with 25, (no break no walk)

Here’s some info on stair running, I researched three years ago- Christian Riedl (Germany) is one of the world’s best stair runners – and current holder of the world record in 12-hour stair runs. Within a 12-hour time frame, he covered 13.145 meters of elevation gain at Frankfurt’s Tower 185. Therefore, he had to run up 71 times and take the elevator back down time and again. Besides the CN Tower Climb and the Empire State Building Run Up, there are some great tower running events in Chicago, but also European cities like Vienna, Frankfurt, Berlin, Basel, Warsaw and London host international stair running events. Plus, some Eastern European locations have started appearing on the stair running map. If you want to work on your endurance, try it out – stair running is a great workout!

Everest is a good example of why what and how we must change our attitudes to outdoor adventures, Everesting at home can be done as a great alternative to flying out to Tibet and being a part of the problem of climate change and ecological breakdown, flying to Everest is accelerating its demise, I personally have dreamed of visiting base camp, I still want to cycle there, but; even that these days makes me feel guilty for when I arrive I will be adding to the worlds highest rubbish dump, Everest’s highest glacier has lost 2,000 years of ice in 30 years the surprising finding that Earth’s highest ice may be gone in decades is “or should be a real wake-up call” why it isnt i cannot understand nobody seems to care, Climate change has arrived decisively at the roof of the world on Mount Everest: The highest glacier on the highest mountain on Earth is losing decades worth of ice every year, according to a new study by researchers who extracted an ice core from the glacier. Coring the highest glacier A key component of the research was extracting a cylindrical piece of ice from the glacier, at an elevation more than 1,000 meters (3,200 feet) higher than the previous highest ice core ever collected. Doing so by Mariusz Potocki, a glaciochemist required adapting existing drilling equipment to be as light as possible so that it could be carried by hand up the mountain and operate in the thin air. (PS into thin air- is my second favourite book about Everest) The results, however, shocked Potocki and the team. When the 10-meter (33-foot) ice core was analysed, radiocarbon dating revealed that the ice at the surface was approximately 2,000 years old. In other words, any ice that had been laid down on the glacier in the past two millennia was simply gone. The core contained layers of annual ice growth—somewhat like tree rings—and by measuring their thickness, the team calculated that, assuming the rate of ice deposition has remained the same over time, approximately 55 meters (180 feet) of ice has been lost. the findings add to a growing catalogue of evidence that climate change is now fundamentally changing even the most remote areas of the world. “We know the oceans are polluted—we know that they are warming and acidifying,”. “We know that there are times even in mid-winter when warm air masses reach the North Pole and temperatures there are above freezing. We know that there are certain times in summer when the entire surface of the Greenland ice sheet is melting.“And now, we have the evidence that even the highest glacier on the highest mountain in the world is rapidly losing its ice. So yes, it’s a real wake-up call.” Since the 60`s thousands of visitors have flocked to the mountain, and it is starting to take its toll. Today, Everest is so overcrowded and full of trash that it has been called the “world’s highest garbage dump.” The World’s Highest Garbage Dump Sagarmatha National Park was created in 1976 to protect the mountain and its wildlife, and it became a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage site in 1979. The park receives around 100,000 visitors each year, and all those people place a strain on the natural environment. Deforestation plagues the local area, as people fell trees to make lodges and firewood for tourists. During peak season, the park receives as many as 500 people per day making the hike to Base Camp, and the intense volume of visitors is eroding footpaths. But the biggest problem is on the mountain itself. Over 600 people attempt to summit Mount Everest every climbing season during the few weeks of the year when weather conditions are just right. In addition, for every climber there is at least one local worker who cooks, carries equipment, and guides the expedition. The mountain has become so overcrowded that oftentimes climbers have to stand in line for hours in freezing cold conditions to reach the top, where the air is so thin an oxygen mask is needed to breathe. They walk single file at a snail’s pace over the Hillary Step, the last obstacle before the summit. When climbers finally reach the summit, there is barely room to stand because of overcrowding. Each of those climbers spends weeks on the mountain, adjusting to the altitude at a series of camps before advancing to the summit. During that time, each person generates, on average, around eight kilograms of rubbish, and - the majority of this waste gets left on the mountain. The slopes are littered with discarded empty oxygen canisters, abandoned tents, food containers, and even human faeces. At Base Camp, there are tented toilets with large collection barrels that can be carried away and emptied. But that is where the toilet facilities end. For the rest of their expedition, climbers have to relieve themselves on the mountain. This is unsustainable it has to stop! Everesting can/should be pursued as an alternative to visiting the region please, if you are going to this then please highlight the real mountains problems, lets stop the rot what we do as an indidual about this? what we do as a comunity about this? what our government does about this and what should be getting done globally are all linked,