"EVEREST FRAUD CASE: KILIAN JORNET"

Not going to get caught up in the controversy – but I will say that it's equally strange that KJ cannot definitively prove he made it, nor can the document definitively prove he didn't, it's all a little cloudy and built around the 'facts' that comes from bias of each of the interested parties.

Regarding what makes Kilian so hard to beat and such an outlier is a combination of things, not just his descending abilities. At Sierre Zinal he beat the field and smashed the record but dropping everyone on the climb - in fact i think Petro made up ground on the descent. Climbing is relative, what hight, distance and grade? A VK is very different to running Pikes Peak. You can't train to be the best VK climber and the best mountain marathoner at once. You can be very good at both but not best.. When properly trained for a race (traditionally Killian has not had to, nor been able to train 100% for races and comes off of other training, skiing, FKTs, etc) I don't think there are many people that can climb as efficiently/fast as Killian on mountain terrain just as there aren't many that can keep up with him on the descents. But what I think makes him especially hard to beat is switching through energy systems. He has lived and raced all his life in the mountains and has developed the most ridiculous range and understanding of how to race. A lot of people don't give him credit for his experience and self-training, which is above and beyond what anyone else in the trail/ultra scene is doing/has done.