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Alberto Contador breaks Everesting record with time of 7:27:20

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Seven-time Grand Tour winner, Alberto Contador, has set a new Everesting record in a time of 7 hours, 27 minutes and 20 seconds. The record, set on Tuesday, July 7 on a steep, gently arcing segment of the climb of Silla del Rey in Castile and León, Spain, beats the mark recently set by Lachlan …

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Emma Pooley has set a new Everesting record

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British former pro Emma Pooley has set a new women’s Everesting world record, taking roughly 15 minutes off the previous mark set last month. On Wednesday, the 37-year-old completed 10 laps of the punishingly steep Haggenegg climb (6.8 km at 13%) near the town of Schwyz in central Switzerland, accumulating the necessary 8,848 metres (29,029 …

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Gallery: Lachlan Morton’s Everesting

The first attempt, a little over a week ago, came on a whim and ended in heartbreak. Lachlan Morton thought he rode 8,848 meters in seven hours and 32 minutes; accurate elevation data, dug up after the fact, said otherwise. He’d have to go back. His loss is our gain. Not only do we get …

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Lachlan Morton breaks Everesting record (for real this time)

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EF Pro Cycling’s Lachlan Morton has unofficially broken the Everesting record, setting a time of roughly 7 hours and 30 minutes less than a week after his previous attempt was nullified due to bad elevation data. An official time has not yet been confirmed. We’ll update this story when we get it. Morton made his …

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Lachlan Morton didn’t set a new Everesting record after all

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Four days ago US mountain biker Keegan Swenson thought he’d lost the Everesting world record to Aussie road racer Lachlan Morton (EF Pro Cycling). Morton had completed 42 laps of the backside of Colorado’s Rist Canyon in a time of 7 hours, 32 minutes and 54 seconds, seemingly beating Swenson’s record by just over seven …

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