Originally Posted by
DrIsotope
I genuinely don't understand the appeal-- but then again, I've never broken 14k vertical feet in a week, much less a day. The notion of an "Everest Week" sounds slightly less awful, until I remember it would be about 4,500ft per day, every day. I'm way too close to 100kg to participate in those kinds of shenanigans.
Same here. I've never been a great climber, but because of my motorcycling background, I was awesome at descending. Maybe if we didn't have to cover the vertical ascent portions under out own power, then I would put forth an even more extreme challenge...Challenger Deeping! Who can descend the 35,856ft the fastest?!?!