"The past few times I've done something big on my bike, the Double Everest, then, the bigger still Olympus Mons, I've said it's the last one, the mental fortitude, the strain and stress, physical toll and recovery all cry out to me, begging for some normalcy," Hildred says about the mental and physical grit required to check these boxes. "I don't know why, I can't help myself, it's an exciting pursuit. A few months ago..."
"What if you could do it in 100 days? What if you could achieve a million feet in 2400 hours, ride an average of ten thousand feet a day for 100 consecutive days, climb an Everest every 69 hours from January 1st to April 10th. Imagine that journey."
"I'm two days in, my curiosity peaked, so many hours leave a scary amount of room for hiccups, health and recovery, a million feet of 'safe' descending needed, this is the gnarliest thing I've taken on," Ben said in an Instagram post made on January 2nd. "I'm going to try keep my business, Further Queenstown open too, if riding wasn't enough. What I'm already realizing is the rest of life is going to be on a weird hold."
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