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

• Record on an appropriate device (ie. phone, watch, garmin etc). It must be 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 on our submissions page.

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.

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

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 skier. Too shallow a gradient and you will be riding a lot of additional distance leading to an extra long day on the climb. 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 ride the climb beforehand.
• Think about the conditions of the climb. Will it be safe at night? What is the descent like – particularly when fatigue sets in? Is there somewhere safe to turn around at the top and bottom?
• 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.

Tips for choosing a Ski Everesting segment

• Anything that has a vertical gain can be used to complete a ski Everesting.
• The chosen route must only focus on one hill or mountain (e.g. you can’t base yourself in one location and ski multiple hills).
• Repeats 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 ski Everesting anywhere on the hill (bottom, middle, or top)
• Each repeat must be skied up and down (i.e. you can’t get driven down each time).
• You need to keep your device recording the whole time.

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 ski 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)