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 gen

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.