“The most difficult climbing challenge in the world” — taken on indoors during lockdown, and whittled down to twelve hours.
About the challenge. Everesting is fiendishly simple: pick any hill, anywhere, and ride repeats of it in a single activity until you have climbed 8,848 m — the height of Mt Everest. The virtual version must be completed indoors on an online cycling platform paired with a smart interactive trainer; during the pandemic it saw a surge of over 600% in riders attempting it.
Bharat took it on via the climb of Alpe du Zwift on a TacX Neo trainer running ZWIFT. Alpe du Zwift is the longest, hardest climb in the game — a GPS-accurate replica of the famous Alpe d'Huez in France, 21 hairpins averaging an 8.5% gradient, climbing 1,035 m over 12.2 km to the summit.
He attempted Everesting on several occasions through lockdown, steadily bringing his time down from 16 hours 41 minutes to 12 hours 08 minutes — and a place in the Everesting Hall of Fame.
