Interesting read on the Ecuadorian guy who has already shattered 2 of Killian Jornet's FKTs.
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Not bad for a dude without the backing of Salomon to fund the adventures and put him in the latest/greatest gear.
Interesting read on the Ecuadorian guy who has already shattered 2 of Killian Jornet's FKTs.
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Not bad for a dude without the backing of Salomon to fund the adventures and put him in the latest/greatest gear.
I agree. I find Kilian's stuff less interesting now than a couple years ago, before he became this international superstar. Something about the millions of dollars in support pumped in behind everything he does now by the Saloman juggernaut makes the stuff he does seem so clinical and sterile. They shut down the Matterhorn just for him to run his speed record on it. Did they shut it down when Brunod set his record? I don't know but I doubt it. I guess the blue collar guys are more interesting to me. Though if this Egloff chap keeps taking down Jornet's records, he won't stay blue collar for long.
c'mon man, nobody cares about that stuff.
Wow, thanks for this post! I don't know how I hadn't heard of this previously. I was actually on Kilimanjaro on August 22nd when this guy set the record and apparently just missed him coming up through Baranco Camp by hours - I was coming up the Machame Route and got there a few hours after when he would've passed through. There was a bad snowstorm the day after we summitted, so he's lucky that he didn't wait a few more days to attempt. Sub-7 hours for round trip on that mountain is really mindblowing. I ran a 2:42 marathon 5 months before climbing and spend a lot of time in the mountains here in Utah, having gotten up to 11000' close to 100 times in the year prior to the climb. Even with that sort of fitness and time in the mountains, I struggled a lot with the altitude and felt sick quite a few times despite spending a grand total of 30 hours on the ascent and descent over a span of 6 days.
Cool insight, Collin. Thanks for sharing.
I don't have the context (or first person understanding, I guess) to really put some of these FKT mountain runs in perspective. This story helps.
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