run Rules
Pick your route anywhere in the world and climb the height of your chosen Everesting Challenge in a single, continuous activity.
A Run Everesting is completed on foot (run, hike, walk, climb).
Just hit the SUBMIT button in our Hall of Fame, log in to your account and upload your Strava activity.
We will carefully review your attempt, and once approved, you’ll earn your place among thousands of trailblazers, athletes, and adventurers in our global Crew.
To complete the challenge you must gain the total elevation of your chosen Everesting Challenge in one effort.
- Quarter Everesting 2,212m (7,258ft)
- Half Everesting 4,424m (14,515ft)
- Full Everesting 8,848m+ (29,029ft+)
- Everesting Half ROAM 4,424m+ (14,515ft+), Full ROAM 8,848m+ (29,209ft+) or 10k ROAM 10,000 m+ (32,809 ft+)
Check routes and segments on the Everesting Calculator to make sure they are appropriate.
Your attempt must be recorded on Strava.
ONE HILL (ORIGINAL EVERESTING)
- Anything that has vertical gain can be used to complete an Everesting.
- Your chosen run segment can be of any length, on any hill, mountain, stairset, staircase, rock wall, or bridge.
- The chosen route must focus on one hill or mountain (e.g. you can’t base yourself in one location and run multiple hills).
- Runs must be full ascents of your chosen climb each time. You can’t commit to a combination of full and half laps.
- Once you hit your climbing target you can abandon the final repeat.
- You can start and finish the run anywhere on the hill (bottom, middle, or top).
Everesting ROAM removes the requirement to repeat a single hill.
You may complete the challenge across multiple climbs and routes, accumulating elevation continuously until the required ROAM elevation target is reached.
ROAM can be completed as:
- Half Everesting ROAM – 4,424 m+ (14,515 ft+)
- Full Everesting ROAM – 8,848m+ (29,209ft+)
- Everesting 10k ROAM – 10,000 m+ (32,809 ft+)
All other Everesting rules still apply, including completing the challenge in a single activity and recording the attempt on Strava.
For descending you can complete your challenge as either a non-shuttled run or a shuttled run.
Non-Shuttled Run
- Each repeat must be run up and down.
Shuttled Run
- You may save your knees and be transported down between repeats. This can be by car, bus, shuttle, chairlift/gondola, lift, abseiling, bike, or other means.
- You may pause your recording device while being transported back to the start of the climb.
- The challenge must be completed in one attempt with no sleep.
- Breaks for meals are acceptable.
- You can break for as long as you need. Keep in mind this counts towards the total elapsed time.
- Your final time for the challenge is taken as the total elapsed time of the attempt, not the total moving time.