Everest ...anywhere!

#WHERESYOUREVEREST Have you ever wondered how high you climb in a year of walking? Make 2017 the year you find out, with Trail’s new challenge...

Introducing Trail’s new hillwalking challenge

So, the first question: what exactly is the Everest Anywhere challenge? Well, every time you have a day out in the hills, you come home with a certain number of metres of

ascent under your belt – the vertical distance you cover with all the uphill steps you take to land you on the summits of your favourite hills. So this year Trail and top gear brand Marmot are challenging you to see if you can clock up an ascent that matches the height of Everest – at least – and to share with us the moment you get there!

Can I do that?

Everest is 8848m tall. That’s 29,029ft – the cruising altitude of a 747, the bottom of the stratosphere... and several vertical miles higher than anything in Britain. Sounds like a lot of ascent? Well, it’s not actually as much as you’d think. Climbing Snowdon via the Pyg Track from Pen-y-Pass involves 800m of vertical ascent. That’s nearly a tenth of the height of Everest, and a decent day’s hillwalking for most. Some days you might cover 500m of ascent. Other days might see as much as 1700m. So with a bit of dedication, that magic 8848m mark is achievable and you could be saying: “I’ve climbed the height of Everest!” sooner than you think. Wonder where you’ll be when you reach it?!

Every ascent counts

The really great thing? When you can’t get to the mountains you can still do it – pretty much anywhere. Carnoustie. Kettering. Hampstead Heath. Haywards Heath. Yeovil. Your street. Anywhere there is a bit of uphill. It doesn’t have to be much; but it all counts towards your Everest total! And if you do reach the magic 8848m mark, why stop there? See how many Everests you can bag in 12 months. If you’d told record-breaking UK mountaineer Alan Hinkes to stop at Everest, he wouldn’t have gone on to be the first and only Briton to climb all 14 of the world’s 8000m peaks. That’s a combined height of 115,987m. So the sky is literally the limit! Could you be the first Everest Anywhere challenger to climb 8848m? Sign up now and see!