Plan and Prepare

• Make use of this comprehensive guide to help you plan your Everesting challenge.
• Use our Everesting Calculator to determine the number of reps you require for your chosen climb.

Complete the Everesting Challenge

• It must be recorded and uploaded to Strava prior to submitting it to us.

Submit for approval

• You must submit the Strava activity from your Everesting to us for approval. Submit here.

The rules are simple:  Pick any hill, anywhere in the world and complete repeats of it in a single activity until you climb your chosen Everesting challenge height.

A Run Everesting is completed on foot (run, hike, walk, climb).

For a detailed description of the Everesting rules please read the rules pages.

Unlike a cycling Everesting, you can seek alternate transport for the descent component of your run Everesting.

• Anything that has a vertical gain can be used to complete an Everesting.
• Your chosen run segment can be of any length, on any hill, mountain, stairset, rockwall, or bridge.
• The chosen route must only focus on one hill or mountain (e.g. you can’t base yourself in one location and run multiple hills).
• Run 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 that repeat.
• You can start and finish the run anywhere on the hill (bottom, middle, or top)
• For Descending you can choose to complete your challenge as a non shuttled run or a shuttled run.
  – Non Shuttled Run: Each repeat must be run up and down.
  – Shuttled Run: you can save your knees and be transported down each lap. This can be by car, bus, shuttle, chairlift/gondola, lift, abseiling, or bike etc. You can pause your device if being transported to the bottom of each lap.

General Considerations

• Make sure you thoroughly understand the rules of what is considered an acceptable climb. For a detailed description of the Everesting rules please read the rules pages.
• Choose a climb that suits your strengths as a runner. Too shallow a gradient and you will be covering a lot of additional distance leading to an extra long day out there. Pick too steep of a climb and your legs will be screaming at you later in the challenge. Choose something you can sustain all day.
• Calculations: A great resource to help calculate your number of laps, work out approximate times, and any elevation gain on the descent is The Everesting Calculator. It’s not gospel, but it’s a pretty handy tool.
• Test out a bunch of potential options, and where possible you should aim to recci the route beforehand.
• Think about the conditions of the climb. Will there be lots of traffic on the road? Will it be safe at night? What is the descent like – particularly when fatigue sets in? What is the surface like and how will it be in different weather conditions.
• Is it well surfaced?
• Consider the potential exposure to elements – rain, sun and wind. Is there some shade?
• Consider amenities near the climb. Are there toilets nearby?
• Is there somewhere to set up your base camp? Make sure you have easy access to your supply of water, food and clothing.

A great resource to help calculate your laps, work out approximate times, and any elevation gain on the descent is The Everesting Calculator.

Take caution when calculating your reps/laps based on Strava segments, as these only show ‘elevation difference’ and not ‘elevation gain’ (i.e. if your climb has a few descents you want to ensure you are calculating laps based on the total elevation gain, and not simply the difference between the base and summit). It is strongly suggested that you check the listed elevation gain against your own recording.

It is our strong recommendation that on the day you ride to a pre-determined amount of reps/laps, as opposed to the figure on your bike computer, particularly on a day of weather changes.

The purest and most accurate method of climbing 8,848m will always be to divide 8,848m by the amount of elevation on your carefully selected segment to give you the laps required.

(e.g. a segment of 100m gain: 8,848 ÷ 100m = 88.48 reps required)