British gravel champion Lizzie Hermolle breaks Women’s Everesting gravel World Record
On Thursday March 26th, at 06:17 in the morning, national gravel champion Lizzie Hermolle (@lizziehermolle) rolled out onto the frost-covered Sheep Pasture Incline (UK) climb with one goal: to become the fastest woman ever to climb the height of Mt. Everest off-road.
Ten hours and fifty eight minutes later, she did exactly that — and then some. Lizzie didn’t just break the previous record set by Emma Pooley in 2020. She shattered it by 1 hour and 59 minutes.
The numbers speak for themselves:
🗻 8,848 m elevation
🔢 65 laps
📏 157km ridden
🔥 8,224 calories burned
💨 14.5kph average speed
The day started at -4°C with frost on the climb. A headwind picked up later in the attempt.
And the only real stop? A quick toilet break at the halfway point — which, as Lizzie put it, was actually the hardest moment of the day: “Getting going again was the worst bit. My legs seized up slightly.”
But she kept going. Because that’s what Everesting is about.
“You go through so much in your head with challenges like this. Sometimes you feel great, sometimes you want to stop — but to keep going gives you such satisfaction. I enjoy the suffering, so this was the perfect challenge.”
Lizzie rode the Ventum GS1 paired with the No6 G45 — light on the climb, fast on the descent — and trusted the Vittoria Terreno Dry Endurance for tyre choice. Nutrition was handled by @weareogt.
And through it all — her support crew by her side, bringing good vibes from the first lap to the last.
📷️: Images courtesy of @weareogt