Tandem #09: Shannon Bufton and Everesting Everest - a podcast by Red Kite Prayer

How hard would it be to climb the height of Mount Everest in a single ride? That is, riding until you climbed 29,029 feet. So what about Everesting on Mount Everest? If there's a more difficult way to tackle that feat, it hasn't occurred to us. Selene interviewed Shannon Bufton who runs a tour company that took people to Everest base camp to ride a 1.5-mile stretch of road that climbed at 5 percent. Zhuangchen “JJ” Zhou from Hong Kong completed the feat, with 177 trips up the road for 263 total miles ridden in roughly 26 hours. 

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