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This is interesting. It seems like the general idea is to climb the equivalent of the height of Everest from sea level (8,848m/29,029ft) in one activity with no

by yosito 4y ago

This is interesting. It seems like the general idea is to climb the equivalent of the height of Everest from sea level (8,848m/29,029ft) in one activity with no sleep. Which, according to my understanding, is quite different than actually climbing Everest, which is normally a journey of several days that starts well above sea level.

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dspillett 4y ago
How you manage the climb can be quite an individual challenge too. Picking an incline I've traversed a few times in trail running events, up to highcliff nab near guidsborough which is about 170m climb over ~800m distance, you'd need to go up and down 56 times which I think is eminently doable (though far from easy) between sleep periods. I'd need a few leg rest breaks! While I'm certain I could physically do it, whether I could face the idea of actually doing it is another matter: endurance challenges can be a mental game as much as a physical one. If you skip the steepest part and do between the bottom and the track to Sutton that is ~100m height over ~550m distance, I think that would actually be more manageable though you miss out on the view from the top each time. Depending on your training for climb you might find it much easier to do a less steep incline, climbing the same amount over a longer distance possibly in a similar time, though for an Everesting challenge going steep feels more right. I'm thinking about this too much. I might be in danger of setting myself up for an Everesting challenge. I wonder how many times I'd have to go up & down the hill up to the local University… ---- Edit: hmm, that little hill is only 14m over 500m apparently. I'd have to cover 632Km and the longest I've ever done in one go is 129 (80 miles), that with just ~800m total ascent. Maybe this is not nearly as do as doable as I first thought! Maybe I'd do better going shorter & steeper. When the lungs have recorded from what covid did to them I might have to try train myself up for it.
danielvaughn 4y ago
I suppose you could get one of those air-restricting masks and simulate it to some degree.
AtlasBarfed 4y ago
What is really really funny to me is something like Mt Kilimanjaro. Obviously 10,000 feet shorter so an entirely different ballgame, but climbing it for the general population is like 7-8 days. I believe that is stictly the climb up time, although I may be wrong. Anyway... Kilimanjaro is a very accessible mountain for the ultra runners though. Kilian Jornet went from base camp to summit AND BACK in 7 hours 14 minutes, summit time was 5 hours and 23 minutes. Karl Egloff has summited in 4:56. I really really want to know what some sort of EPO'd up superelite runner could do up Everest. Especially since almost all the tourists use supplemental oxygen. So if you're in 50% of the shape of Kilian Jornet, then you could theoretically summit in 11 hours. Now there's a lot of danger involved in that, you need to determine if you get bad altitude sickness or hemmoraghing, so a lot of test runs up smaller summits is obviously required. Anyway, you have these tourists taking 7-8 days, and some runner does it in FIVE FREAKING HOURS. Imagine hiking along and some runner comes scorching by and knowing they are going up and down the mountain in a time less than your daily hike that day. Back in my ironman-finishing (not Hawaii-class) I was considering training to do that. This Everesting thing would be a great peak ironman training day. Alas, I have dadbod these days.

by yosito 4y ago

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dspillett 4y ago

How you manage the climb can be quite an individual challenge too. Picking an incline I've traversed a few times in trail running events, up to highcliff nab near guidsborough which is about 170m climb over ~800m distance, you'd need to go up and down 56 times which I think is eminently doable (though far from easy) between sleep periods. I'd need a few leg rest breaks! While I'm certain I could physically do it, whether I could face the idea of actually doing it is another matter: endurance challenges can be a mental game as much as a physical one. If you skip the steepest part and do between the bottom and the track to Sutton that is ~100m height over ~550m distance, I think that would actually be more manageable though you miss out on the view from the top each time. Depending on your training for climb you might find it much easier to do a less steep incline, climbing the same amount over a longer distance possibly in a similar time, though for an Everesting challenge going steep feels more right. I'm thinking about this too much. I might be in danger of setting myself up for an Everesting challenge. I wonder how many times I'd have to go up & down the hill up to the local University… ---- Edit: hmm, that little hill is only 14m over 500m apparently. I'd have to cover 632Km and the longest I've ever done in one go is 129 (80 miles), that with just ~800m total ascent. Maybe this is not nearly as do as doable as I first thought! Maybe I'd do better going shorter & steeper. When the lungs have recorded from what covid did to them I might have to try train myself up for it.

danielvaughn 4y ago

I suppose you could get one of those air-restricting masks and simulate it to some degree.

AtlasBarfed 4y ago

What is really really funny to me is something like Mt Kilimanjaro. Obviously 10,000 feet shorter so an entirely different ballgame, but climbing it for the general population is like 7-8 days. I believe that is stictly the climb up time, although I may be wrong. Anyway... Kilimanjaro is a very accessible mountain for the ultra runners though. Kilian Jornet went from base camp to summit AND BACK in 7 hours 14 minutes, summit time was 5 hours and 23 minutes. Karl Egloff has summited in 4:56. I really really want to know what some sort of EPO'd up superelite runner could do up Everest. Especially since almost all the tourists use supplemental oxygen. So if you're in 50% of the shape of Kilian Jornet, then you could theoretically summit in 11 hours. Now there's a lot of danger involved in that, you need to determine if you get bad altitude sickness or hemmoraghing, so a lot of test runs up smaller summits is obviously required. Anyway, you have these tourists taking 7-8 days, and some runner does it in FIVE FREAKING HOURS. Imagine hiking along and some runner comes scorching by and knowing they are going up and down the mountain in a time less than your daily hike that day. Back in my ironman-finishing (not Hawaii-class) I was considering training to do that. This Everesting thing would be a great peak ironman training day. Alas, I have dadbod these days.