Yesterday I got the chance to wear my new Millet Everest Boots. My friend Mark Manetti, my Pittsburgh neighbor's son, brought along his new digital video camera and a stair climbing attitude. It probably was not a good idea to have a few Christmas Ale's at the Sharp Edge the day before climbing 36 flights of stairs, but we did it. With the new boots on it was pretty cool. They weigh a total of 7 lbs, about 2 lbs less than my normal double plastics. The inner lining are silver with aluminum in the material to reflect my body heat back into the boot. As you would guess my feet were pretty hot after even the first 36 flights. My buddy Mike counted the steps one year and I want to say there were 756 total. My altimeter shows about a 375 foot gain. Thanks to the work my personal training has done with me, my hips, quads and lower back handled the weight pretty well. My highest heart rate was 171, and when I stopped it dropped to 138 within about 30 seconds. I feel that was a pretty good recovery but Ai Shoda will tell me otherwise probably. Still some work to do with just under 3 months before I leave. I am going in and out of being nervous, especially when you watch the Everest Beyond the Limit shows.
Mark and I put up the aluminum ladder in Vince Manetti's back yard, my Pittsburgh friend and neighbor. It was pretty weird as expected, walking with metal on metal carrying 45 lbs of gear. Check out the videos for your amusement. I can assume that when I walk over a 150 foot abyss, I am sure my nerves will be tested. I cannot imagine if a strong wind happens by while I have one leg down and one up. Again I cannot stress enough about that Bosu Ball that Ai has me working on just about every other day. I can tell the difference and you can kind of see when I waiver, I catch my balance quickly. When these ladders are across a bigger span with my body weight of 195, and my total gear weight another 65 lbs, I just cannot say how I will feel about that.
Got my new passport and airline ticket, about to send the last $18,750 to IMG, bringing the total currently over $33,000. There is more to be paid, I do not want to do an itemized bill just yet.
Cheers for now, more gear keeps coming to my house for those little kind of concerns, like UV rays.
Sunday, December 23, 2007
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Bob This is extreme, you are the man. I would have died more than half way up the first steps.
Going up gets to be pretty normal, it is the coming down and walking with metal spikes on a metal ladder that I worry about. You can do it, just takes time in the gym
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