Ride Mount Everest? That sounds crazy, but think about it; find a local hill and ride up it so many times to equal the hight of the Worlds highest peak. Lee Rodgers is about to tackle ‘Everesting’ and gives us the Lowdown on the daunting task of climbing 8,848 meters in one day.I met Andy Van Bergen at the 2013 Taiwan KOM Challenge when he came over to cover the race for one of the worlds leading cycling websites. He mentioned this thing he’d got going. Everesting was the name. It was pretty straightforward and yet a very original idea: ride up one hill as many times as it takes to gain the same elevation as Everest – eight thousand, eight hundred and forty eight meters. If youre still working with the non-metric system, that translates to 29028.87 feet. In one go. In one day. On one hill. That’s absolutely bonkers, I remember thinking.Where the heck in the world does a man get an idea like that? Andy was interviewed by the British newspaper The Telegraph, in which he explained the genesis of what has now become a worldwide movement.I had read about George Mallory [grandson of the mountaineer] and his preparation to climb Everest 20 years ago, which involved cycling repeats of a mountain as cross-training. At the crux of his training he rode the equivalent of Mount Everest on Mount Donna Buang, in Australias Victorian Alps.I was too afraid to vocalise it, but I knew I had found...
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