It'd been murmured about for months in banter-filled pedals up dreary gravel roads, post-ride pubs, bike park carparks and social media message groups. Was it possible? Maybe. Was it a good idea? Definitely not.
It was exactly the sort of chat that gets Jesse Cseh fizzing. Besides, because of Covid, he didn't have much else on.
“We just toyed with the idea and talked about how crazy it would be, and if it would be possible. Most of the time, it'd be like ‘no, that's impossible. No one could do that’. The more we talked about it, the more people were like, ‘you couldn't physically do that’. And that got me thinking, ‘I wonder if I could…’”
Everesting is a straightforward concept. In fairly vague terms, Everesting.cc describes it as “Pick any climb, anywhere in the world and complete repeats of it in a single activity until you climb 8848m—the equivalent height of Mt Everest.” The website says 20,306 people have completed the challenge on foot or by bicycle. But the raw numbers cannot convey the empty chat and failed attempts.
The key phrase is “pick a climb”.
Yeah Gnar is a solid Wellington grade six/double-black trail that dives off the
