Croagh Patrick

nacho libre

Hi,
I apologise if this is not in the correct forum.
I'm wondering does anyone here recall the time a team climbed this mountain nine times in one day for charity! I was more than impressed by the farmer who joined them and managed to climb it several times with them given that he had no prior training and was in his sixties it was a very impressive feat.
It must be a special feeling to be involved in events like this.

Enduro

There is a hillrace up it every year. have a look at http://www.imra.ie/?sec1=raceresult&id=355 . Its a nice technical run.

What was the significance of climbing it 9 times then?

nacho libre

Well, to the best of my knowledge it hadn't been done before. Maybe nines times in a month but not in a 12 hour period. Thanks for the link.

thirtyfoot

Perhaps the 9 times in a day was to simulate climbing the height of Everest, I can remember thats been done several times as charity events.

Enduro

Everest is about 8,800m high. C.P. is 762m. So nine times the height doesn't have any releveance to Everest. The Maxtrek event on Slieve Donard was probably what you were thinking of w.r.t. climbing the equivalent to the height of Everest.

thirtyfoot

Wasn't the Slieve Donard one I was thinking of it was a Kerry Mountain Rescue crew did it on a climbing wall in the UK as a fundraiser and I've read also of some scout troops doing it too. Its a good angle for a charity event.

http://www.everestinaday.co.uk/blogs/about.php

Enduro

Cumulative total of all the sum of all the climbs that each person did, by the sound of it. Definitely a nice new angle on the climbing Everest thing, and excellent causes.