The actual distance you travel when you climb Everest is about 13 miles. I get that it's cold and uphill, but ultimately it's basically just a half-marathon in extremely crappy conditions.
Why all the massive exaggeration about the challenge?
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9.8m/s^2
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Just make sure you take bicarb before you start
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The Empire State Building Run-up is only 350 yards.
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It is the lack of oxygen.
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People take it too slow and end up spending too much time exposed to the elements. If they just powered through and treated it like a fast hike, they’d make it up and down in a day. 13 miles would be a 4 hour flat hike for a person of average fitness. Even if you move half that speed on account of the slope, you’re at the top and turning around at 8 hours. People who think they need to take it slow are the ones who freeze.
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power through wrote:
People take it too slow and end up spending too much time exposed to the elements. If they just powered through and treated it like a fast hike, they’d make it up and down in a day. 13 miles would be a 4 hour flat hike for a person of average fitness. Even if you move half that speed on account of the slope, you’re at the top and turning around at 8 hours. People who think they need to take it slow are the ones who freeze.
This.
Quicker the better.
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what's the big deal? wrote:
The actual distance you travel when you climb Everest is about 13 miles. I get that it's cold and uphill, but ultimately it's basically just a half-marathon in extremely crappy conditions.
Why all the massive exaggeration about the challenge?
Exactly, except more than 80% of the deaths are on the descent; the other 13 miles.
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How about the 13 miles back down? And dont forget most of the deaths are on the downward leg of the trip.
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How many half marathons have queues like this?261
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what's the big deal? wrote:
The actual distance you travel when you climb Everest is about 13 miles. I get that it's cold and uphill, but ultimately it's basically just a half-marathon in extremely crappy conditions.
Why all the massive exaggeration about the challenge?
Don't even have to climb Everest to die.....Everest(ing) claimed a victim this year.51 -
gilded_time wrote:
How many half marathons have queues like this?That's just for the toilet pre start.
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the challenge for some of them is that they lose their minds and can barely move when they near the top. So it is like the last 100m of an 800m race, and if you fail you might die.
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power through wrote:
People take it too slow and end up spending too much time exposed to the elements. If they just powered through and treated it like a fast hike, they’d make it up and down in a day. 13 miles would be a 4 hour flat hike for a person of average fitness. Even if you move half that speed on account of the slope, you’re at the top and turning around at 8 hours. People who think they need to take it slow are the ones who freeze.
You forgot to add in the other variable of how altitude affects the body. Ascend to quickly without proper acclimatization and you die.
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what\'s the big deal? wrote:
The actual distance you travel when you climb Everest is about 13 miles. I get that it's cold and uphill, but ultimately it's basically just a half-marathon in extremely crappy conditions.
Why all the massive exaggeration about the challenge?
3/10 trolling
Do better!
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Try it moron. Then get back to us with a report.
Coach Boat
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You should give it a go and report back what the big deal is.
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Indeed...one day, the marathon WR will go under two hours
Then the record for climbing and descending Everest will go under two hours.
Then you'll be able to be able to climb Everest during your lunch break.
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Altitude is a game changer wrote:
power through wrote:
People take it too slow and end up spending too much time exposed to the elements. If they just powered through and treated it like a fast hike, they’d make it up and down in a day. 13 miles would be a 4 hour flat hike for a person of average fitness. Even if you move half that speed on account of the slope, you’re at the top and turning around at 8 hours. People who think they need to take it slow are the ones who freeze.
You forgot to add in the other variable of how altitude affects the body. Ascend to quickly without proper acclimatization and you die.
why not just use EPO? Blood doping isn't cheating to climb a mountain. You can't be DQd
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