stairs Rules
Pick your route anywhere in the world and climb the height of your chosen Everesting Challenge in a single, continuous activity.
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 potential routes and segments on the Everesting Calculator to make sure they are appropriate.
Your attempt must be recorded on Strava.
Because GPS elevation is unreliable indoors, elevation gain for stair Everestings should be calculated using step height and step count.
To determine vertical gain:
– Measure the vertical height of 10 consecutive steps using a tape measure.
– Divide this measurement by 10 to calculate the average step height.
– Multiply the average step height by the number of steps in a full ascent.
– Multiply this number by the total number of ascents completed.
Participants should document the step height and number of steps used in their calculatio
- Anything that has vertical gain can be used to complete a stair Everesting.
- Your chosen route must focus on one staircase or stair structure (e.g. building stairwell, stadium stairs, outdoor stair climb).
- The chosen route must repeat the same staircase each time.
- Each repeat must be a full ascent of the staircase. You cannot combine full and partial laps.
- Once you hit your climbing target you can abandon the final repeat.
- You may start and finish anywhere within the staircase, provided each repeat follows the same route.
For descending you may complete the challenge as either non-shuttled or shuttled.
Non-Shuttled
- Each repeat must be climbed up and descended under your own power.
Shuttled
- You may descend by elevator, escalator, lift, or other transport between repeats.
- 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.