"Real adventure doesn’t have to be endless travel to remote places. It can just be the local hill and an awesome attitude.”
The above quote from the madcap, endurance legend Ned Phillips last week describes perfectly what happened when my good friend Bastian Dohling and I embarked on an Everesting attempt last Friday at the unlikely location of Rifle Range Road in Singapore.
Since the concept was popularised in 2014, there have been some 2,283 successful Everestings on inclines of widely varying gradients and distances. Some do it on proper mountains in famous ranges such as the Alps, the Rockies or even the Himalayas, while others living in less vertically endowed locations make do with smaller slopes, often much smaller … like Rifle Range Road.
Click on this link to read the full story.
The above quote from the madcap, endurance legend Ned Phillips last week describes perfectly what happened when my good friend Bastian Dohling and I embarked on an Everesting attempt last Friday at the unlikely location of Rifle Range Road in Singapore.
Since the concept was popularised in 2014, there have been some 2,283 successful Everestings on inclines of widely varying gradients and distances. Some do it on proper mountains in famous ranges such as the Alps, the Rockies or even the Himalayas, while others living in less vertically endowed locations make do with smaller slopes, often much smaller … like Rifle Range Road.
Click on this link to read the full story.
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