Expedition Launch: Mt. Everest Challenge
Want adventure without danger?
Join your fellow employees in the Mt. Everest Challenge
and climb to the highest summit in the world!
This five-week challenge will get you moving as you track your physical and
nutritional activity in an effort to ascend the summit of Mt. Everest at 29,035 feet.
Expedition Preparation: Leave your parka, ice ax and crampons home for this challenge. And
unlike the $11,000 fee climbers normally pay to ascend Mt. Everest, you only need to register and
pay a $5 climbing permit fee. We will record your weight, waist and hip measurements before and
after the climb.
The Climb: Climbers begin at Base Camp, elevation 17,700 feet, and have five weeks to reach the
summit at 29,035 feet. This means you’ll need to “climb” 2,267 feet each week – 324 feet each day.
You can achieve elevation gain by climbing stairs, exercising, eating healthy and drinking water.
Along the way, you’ll receive a weekly expedition newsletter with health tips. Keep in mind, every
workout and healthy decision puts you one step closer to the roof of the world.
Climb 10 feet by:
• climbing one flight of stairs (roughly 16-18 steps) 32 flights up per day
Climb 25 feet by:
• performing 15 minutes of aerobic activity or strength training
• drinking 32 oz. of water
• climbing 15 minutes on a stairstepper
• eating one serving of fruit or vegetable
Climb 100 feet by:
• running, walking, elliptical 1 mile
• cycling 5 miles (20 feet for every mile cycling)
Go down in mountaineering history by scoring one of the following awards.
Ways to win! (each winner earns one-fifth of the climbing permit fees collected at the
beginning of the challenge):
1. Fastest to the summit* (11,335 feet from base camp)
2. Biggest loser (lost highest percentage of body weight)
3. Skinniest climber (Lost most inches from waist and hip)
4. Apa Sherpa Endurance Award** (Recorded the most physical activity)
5. Hillary/Norgay*** Award (Random drawing)
*Kazi Sherpa climbed to the top of Mt. Everest without supplemental oxygen in 20 hrs 24 minutes
**Apa Sherpa has climbed Mt. Everest 21 times, the most in history
***Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay Sherpa were the first men to summit Mt. Everest in 1953
“It’s not the mountain we conquer-but ourselves” Sir Edmund Hillary