Everesting
This challenge first caught my attention when Tom Walker completed his first Everest on Jebel Jais in February 2019. I can't recall if I’d already heard of ‘Eversting’ at the time or what initially caught my attention. I think it was a combination of the time it would take to complete, perhaps the distance, or having the physical ability to climb almost 9000m in one ride, but probably having the mental fortitude to spend that amount of time in the saddle, but whatever it was I was enchanted by the whole idea. Come early 2020 Tom did another day of climbing 8.9 times up Jebel Jais and shortly afterwards I found myself receiving a reply to a message I had sent him stating I wanted in on the same. Tom’s response was “you’re on''. I vividly remember sitting in the car outside Wolfies bike shop and breaking into a cold sweat when I read that reply and I realized what I’d just committed to!! The date was put in the diary for the 11th December, and clearly there was training to be...