Altitude, strength, and your own data, written for professionals in their 40s and 50s who still have a big one left on the list.
Base Camp is not a fitness test, it is a decision test. Here is the exact way I get a 50-something professional ready, three markers at a time, without wrecking a knee to do it.
A guest post. Less than 100 meters from the summit of an Icelandic glacier when totality arrived, in cloud cover instead of clear sky. What almost reaching the exact target taught her about the difference between the objective and the reason behind it.
A guest post. Working out improves your health. Training demands disciplined effort around a future commitment, and eleven months of it changed more than her fitness.
Less fit than you fear, and fit in a way your gym never measures. The real bar, and the one test that predicts your trip.
Age changes how you prepare, not whether you can go. The real risks over 50, and the way to train around them.
From $1,200 local packages to luxury options. What the price buys, and the cost nobody quotes.
Before you put money down on Kili, check three numbers. They predict how the trip actually goes, and every one of them is fixable with enough runway.
The program that built you at 25 is quietly breaking you at 52. Same volume, different body. Here is what changes, and what to train instead.
Two different bodies. A trek only rewards one of them, and it is not the one you build under a barbell.
Most people wear the device and ignore the signal. The four metrics that predict how you will hold up.
The descent, not the climb, is what wrecks knees. Whether yours will hold up, and how to train so they do.
Why a strongman and former intelligence officer coaches people up mountains, and what the trail taught him.
The trip that keeps sliding to next year. The honest math on the window, and why starting is the whole game.