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‘Everesting’
Mt. Everest is the literal representation of a challenge. Originally a cycling challenge, ‘everesting’ is a vertical test of endurance where an individual or team perform an activity continuously until their total vertical ascent is over 8’848 meters, the height of the summit of Mount Everest above sea-level. Our challenge is called Neverest as we are everesting to raise funds for Nepal.
Melbourne Dandenongs
Canberra Mt Ainslie
Sydney Mt Kembla
‘Everesting for Nepal’
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- You can register as an individual or create/join a relay team below.
- You can also create individual and team fundraising pages on the fundraising platform to share around with family and friends.
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Neverest Sydney
NEVEREST Sydney is a Team only Hiking event. Due to the time we have access to use the track, there is not enough time to finish the challenge solo. We expect that a relatively fit team of 2 people would be able to finish the challenge in 13 hours.
Challenge Stats:
-51 Repititions (laps)
-93 km
-9000 vertical meters
Individuals and teams start from 7am on Saturday 8th April. (Please note that this is different from the other events)
There will be a cutoff at 8pm on Saturday night.
We will have a mini-bus shuttle to pick people up from Unanderra train station meeting the trains which arrive at the following times:
- 7:04am
- 8:23am
- 9:06am
Transport back to the train station will be organised as needed and when required.
Neverest Canberra
The foot event at NEVEREST Canberra will be held on the Spur track up Mount Ainslie:
Challenge Stats:
-53 Repititions
-106km
-9000 vertical meters
Hike Lap Stats:
A Lap constitutes walking down and back up (If starting from the top)
Individual Neveresters start at 7pm on friday night,
Teams start at 7am on Saturday 1st April.
Parking is in the car park at the top of Mt Ainslie.
NEVEREST Canberra has a cycling option on Mt. Ainslie Drive!
Challenge Stats:
-43 Repititions
-223km
-9000 vertical meters
Bike Lap Stats:
A Lap constitutes riding up and back down.
The cycling event will start at 6am and be coordinated from the top of Mt Ainslie.
Solo riders can start a bit before 6am if they would like to have more time (Cutoff time info below)
Canberra Info
Shirts and Bibs can be collected at the top throughout the day.
- To clarify, you and your team can walk the laps concurrently.
- For walkers, if more than 15mm is forecast the park wont let us use the track, so, we will complete half the challenge on the sealed walking track on Mt. Ainslie.
- For riders, If the road surface is wet enough that it becomes glossy (i.e. more than damp) then we might pause it for a bit until it dries off.
For Riders:
- Another note for teams completing the challenge by doing a mix of running and riding, remember that each riding lap has more vertical meters than the walking lap.
- Teams doing a mixed relay need to keep a track of how many laps of either riding or running they need to do.
- We will also try to get a bike rack set up at the top for mixed teams and relay teams.
- Solo riders and people doing multiple laps can turn at the KOM marker if safe to do so. Note that all drinks and support stuff will be at the lookout
- Note the 60km/hr speed limit on the way down
- We will be enforcing at 12am cut-off for riding.
Supporters are welcome on the day. They can buy shirts and there will be a sausage sizzle with free food and drink for participants, donations of food are always appreciated too! 100% of the proceeds from any sales go to the foundation.
Anyone can sign up on the day, although we will have a limited number of shirts left. There are blank bibs to write names on, and you can add your name to an existing team on the lap counter or write your name in an empty box and do as many laps as you can solo.
Parks have also told us to advise all the walkers of Unexploded Ordinances. Now, to clarify, we haven’t put land mines on the track, the challenge is hard enough as it is. But the eastern side of Mount Ainslie used to be a weapons testing area and some very old ordinances have been found, well off the track. If you stick to the track, there won’t be a problem and if you do see something, let us know and we will notify parks.
Neverest Melbourne
Please note that ‘a lap’ includes walking up to the top then back down. (the map above only shows the data for the climb).
Hike Lap Stats:
Online Registration has closed but you can still register as an individual, create or join a relay team on the day. You can sign up anytime from 6:30pm Friday night and throughout the event.
To clarify, in the team event, teams walk the laps concurrently and each member can walk at their own pace, team members don’t need to do an equal number of laps.
Neverest Melbourne is a hike only (meaning no bike riding, you can run it if you like) event and will be held on the Lyrebird track same as last year. We meet at the bottom of the track in the Kokoda Memorial. The track starts at the ampitheatre and goes all the way to the sign before the gate at the top (see the promo video for reference in the scene where it says ‘turn around’).
Challenge Stats:
-35 Repititions (laps)
-103km
-9000 vertical meters
Individual Neveresters start at 7pm Friday Night, Relay teams start at 7am on Saturday 25th March.
Parking is available in the carpark at the bottom of the track (1000 steps carpark). There will be a gold coin donation bbq.