As the winter drew to a close and Covid marched on, I was finally at my wits end! The promise of spring and the looming question of when we will be able to return to a normal schedule of racing and travelling made me itching to challenge myself. The thing is, what to do in the middle of winter, with loads of snow, no one to race and nowhere to go?
Everesting seemed like a good option. Going up and down a hill until you complete the height of mount Everest. But I wanted something bigger! So I came up with the idea of the “Seven Summits Challenge”. Every day of the week, I would ascend the height of a different summit from the list of the highest peaks on each continent. This would be a logistical challenge as well as a physical one!
Here was the plan: