Dead Sea to Everest 5.8 - part 1 - Charlie Engle
THE 5.8 ADVENTURERSFewer than 500 people have summited all Seven Summits and no one has achieved Charlie Engle and André Kajlich´s goal:To be the first...
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576 Peaks in a Year - FKT - Philip Carcia
Aug 23, 2018
White Mountains, NH, USA
Jul 7, 2019
White Mountains, NH, USA
Philip Carcia hiked all of New Hampshire’s 4,000-foot peaks every month for a year. To complete it, one must summit all 48 peaks higher than 4,000 feet on the Appalachian Mountain Club’s White Mountains list 12 times in a year (completing each set of 48 once per calendar month). That adds up to 576 total peak summits in a year, and over 2,700 miles of hiking, with more than one million feet of elevation gain. The vast majority of those who complete the project take years, often decades. Prior to Philip’s attempt, only 84 people had ever done it, and...
Badwater SOLO - Croix Sather
Aug 23, 2012
Aug 26, 2012
Just two years after Croix began running, and 1 year after his run across America, he challenged himself to beat one of the world’s hardest races. It’s called the Badwater SOLO self-contained crossing ultramarathon – commonly called the Badwater-Solo. He was the third person to ever finish the completely unassisted self-contained crossing. At age 41 Croix beat the 13-year-old record set in 1999 by running legend Marshall Ulrich by almost five hours for a new world record time of 72 hours and 55 minutes. Croix made two attempts at Badwater Solo in less than four days. His first try started on...
