Scaling Mount Everest In Vermont
Bloomberg Businessweek|February 17 - 24, 2020
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Anders Melin
Scaling Mount Everest In Vermont

The sun is still below the horizon and the temperature barely above freezing when Jesse Itzler gears up to ascend a black diamond ski slope. “We’re going into the clouds!” he exclaims, eyeing the snow-covered summit of Vermont’s Stratton Mountain, which is ominously concealed by dense fog.

Never mind that Itzler, a 51-year-old serial entrepreneur, and former rapper, has enough money in the bank that he never has to work another day in his life, let alone scale a mountain on a chilly October morning. He’s out here anyway, clad in blue shorts, a wind jacket, and a headband, accompanied by roughly 200 others who range from veteran endurance athletes to people for whom exercise is more of a goal than a habit. They’ve all paid about $4,000 for the privilege of joining him.

The challenge: Follow a winding trail up to the summit. Catch the gondola down. Repeat 16 times. That adds up to a little more than 29,029 feet of elevation—the equivalent of Mount Everest, without the altitude sickness and oxygen tanks—spread over 23 miles of trekking.

Over the next 36 hours, which is the time limit to complete this “Everesting” challenge, numerous participants confess that they’ve struggled to explain to family and friends what they’ve gotten themselves into. Lengthy runs or triathlons are known quantities for those who revel in physical exhaustion. Hauling up and down a ski slope isn’t.

This recent “29029” event is the third that’s been held in Vermont. (Another hike took place in Snowbasin, Utah, a few weeks prior, and the team is adding one in Sun Valley, Idaho, in June.) The participants are fairly evenly split between men and women, and the average age is well over 40. Some have a few marathons behind them. But for most, this is a new frontier.

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