One million vertical feet in 57 days?

[Tumbleweed]

Mountain bikers seem to have an unwavering desire to challenge how far they can push their limits. For some it means jumping farther. For others it means riding a line that terrifies them. For Whistler legend Adam Billinghurst, it meant attempting to ride way more than he ever had in a single season.

 

The mission: to descend one million vertical feet as quickly as humanly possible in one bike park season. Armed with a GPS to track the ride, Adam started racking up the laps, and filmed every single run on his Sony Action Cam. By the numbers, completing a million vertical foot descent is equivalent to walking down the Empire State building 750 times, or down Mt. Everest 48 times. A mountain high enough to complete the descent in one run would rise past the atmosphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and past the Aurora Borealis – all the way up to the orbit of the International Space Station.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=213xt08LjuM

[jcmeyerSS]

wow

[Guest Omega Man]

When I went to France I did 122766 in 9 days and I was DESTROYED.

 

That worked out to something like 14000 in a day. Billinghurst averaged 17000 a day.

Edited October 16, 2013 by Omega Man