So Kilian Jornet has managed to climb all the way up and down Mt Everest twice within 7 days!
This guy is extraordinary!!! 😮
So Kilian Jornet has managed to climb all the way up and down Mt Everest twice within 7 days!
This guy is extraordinary!!! 😮
GOAT!
I thought it was twice in 5 days? I guess it depends on how you count the days. Start of first climb to finish of second climb. Or summit of first climb to summit of second climb.
Fwiw, some Indian woman summitted Everest twice in 5 days while Jornet was on the mountain.
http://abc7.com/society/mother-of-2-scales-mount-everest-twice-in-5-days/2050931/
Everest is quickly becoming the London Marathon. Pretty soon, Guinness will be on hand to record FKT in a spider man suit. FKT while juggling. FKT while walking backwards.
MountainGoat wrote:
So Kilian Jornet has managed to climb all the way up and down Mt Everest twice within 7 days!
This guy is extraordinary!!! 😮
What does it mean to climb all the way up? Can you you to the summit then climb down about 50 meters or so and then go back up to the summit and say "look! I have summitted Everest twice within a few hours?"
Guinness book wrote:
MountainGoat wrote:So Kilian Jornet has managed to climb all the way up and down Mt Everest twice within 7 days!
This guy is extraordinary!!! 😮
What does it mean to climb all the way up? Can you you to the summit then climb down about 50 meters or so and then go back up to the summit and say "look! I have summitted Everest twice within a few hours?"
Yeah you can go up down to camp 3 and then go back up.
Shouldn't you have to go down to sea level for it to count?
Someone really should run from Death Valley to the top of Everest for a gain of 29,311. I wonder if that's been done yet.
Any Ultrarunners? wrote:
Someone really should run from Death Valley to the top of Everest for a gain of 29,311. I wonder if that's been done yet.
If somebody does they'll get ripped a new one on this forum.
Any Ultrarunners? wrote:
Someone really should run from Death Valley to the top of Everest for a gain of 29,311. I wonder if that's been done yet.
Pretty long run from California to Nepal, and swimming across the ocean is no joke either.
silly git wrote:
Any Ultrarunners? wrote:Someone really should run from Death Valley to the top of Everest for a gain of 29,311. I wonder if that's been done yet.
Pretty long run from California to Nepal, and swimming across the ocean is no joke either.
They'll have to take a boat across, but to make it fair, they should have a treadmill on the boat, and the boat's speed should be tied to the speed of the treadmill.
A few yrs ago, a guy rode his bike from Scandinavia to Everest & climbed it & then rode home.
bigtool05 wrote:
They'll have to take a boat across, but to make it fair, they should have a treadmill on the boat, and the boat's speed should be tied to the speed of the treadmill.
Shouldn't the boat be a modified eliptigo running machine where the wheels are replaced with boat paddles for this thing to count?
bigtool05 wrote:
silly git wrote:Pretty long run from California to Nepal, and swimming across the ocean is no joke either.
They'll have to take a boat across, but to make it fair, they should have a treadmill on the boat, and the boat's speed should be tied to the speed of the treadmill.
Several years ago I stopped at Badwater on the way across DV to climb Whitney. I was at the lowest point and highest point in the US in a span of 12 hours.
Goran Kropp. Reading his book right now.
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bigtool05 wrote:
silly git wrote:Pretty long run from California to Nepal, and swimming across the ocean is no joke either.
They'll have to take a boat across, but to make it fair, they should have a treadmill on the boat, and the boat's speed should be tied to the speed of the treadmill.
That'll be easy to do.
It was for sure a great achievement, but, I can't help but think the second time was marketing and in reality he a failed his stated goal. The goal was clear, and to fit into his other FKT in hte project, he needed to go from Rongbuk monastery and back again in a "record time". He got ill the first time and didn't make it back down to the monastery. The second time he neither started or finished at the monastery so other than for marketing, what was the point?
For me, the second time feels largely like an attempt to somehow salvage the failure by doing something else new and help his sponsors still sell this as a victory. The truth is he didn't set any speed records or accomplish his goal. I 100% agree that going up by himself twice in a week without oxygen, fixed ropes or support, is a hell of a thing very few people could do, but I'd have preferred more honesty about the failed goal. His achievement would only be highlighted by a frank discussion of his failure.
through the hill runner wrote:
Goran Kropp. Reading his book right now.
Did you just typo "Galen Rupp"?
This is truth.