FKT: Kilian Jornet - European Alps 82 4000ers - 2024-08-31

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Link ups in mountains has been done since the begins of alpinism. And with the evolution of gear, physical and technical capacities as well as knowledge on strategies and logistics the possibilities for longer or faster link ups has been increasing exponentially. One great example was when Ueli took his paraglide to get down from some summits during his link up. A strategy that evolved enormously when this spring and early summer, para-alpinists Peter Von Kanel and Chrigel Maurer linked all the 82 4000ers in 51 days, using their paraglides not only to get down from the summits but to climb them or to travel the great distances from range to range, opening a world of new possibilities for para – alpinism in the future.

Some random data:

• Weight of the pack: most of the time in the mountains my pack was between 4 and 7kg
• I did 34 summits accompanied and 48 alone.
• My shortest sleep was 15 minutes and the longest was 7 hours.
• Mathéo followed me the most, completing himself 30 summits!
• The most common food for me in the mountains was sandwiches with avocado, oil and fresh cheese or with some homemade “cacao cream” with beans, cacao, nuts, coconut oil.
• I spend an average of 8300cal/day (analyzed with doubly labeled water for the first 7 days)
• I enjoyed 12 beautiful sunsets and 11 amazing sunrises while climbing.
• I didn’t saw any person on 2 days.
• The summits I meet the most people were Aletschhorn, Monte Rosa, Matterhorn and Gran Paradiso.
• Most “enlightening” moment was climbing up Weisshorn, with the sunset, the broken spectrum, and feeling like flowing up.
• To recover, one of the things I drank the most was oregano infusion with coconut oil and Beetroot, ginger and curcuma smoothie.
• The night I slept the best was at Eccles bivi, only for 3h but very deeply.
• I used 4 pairs of gloves during the crossing. All of them were completely worn, with holes in all the fingers.
• I did climb up or down more than 160 different routes during the trip. Some were nice, some very nice and some not so much. The ones I enjoyed the most, for its rock quality, the ambiance and/or the aesthetics were the Lauteraarhorn-Schreckhorn traverse, Dom-Täschhorn, Rimpfischhorn, East ridge at Dent d’Herens, Arbengrat at Ober Gabelhorn, Rothorngrat at Zinalrothorn, Schaligrat at Weisshorn, Jorasses-Rochefort, Aiguilles du Diable, Arête du Brouillard.

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