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Everesting in Two Weeks

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It was January 2021 when I started doing the Coquitlam Crunch with my buddy Dave Sands. Two years ago Dave had a holiday in Ireland and on our subsequent Crunch walk he asked me, ‘Have you ever heard of Everesting?’

No, I hadn’t.

He explained that a friend’s son had ridden up a hill a number of times in order to ride that hill for the equivalent hight of Mount Everest… Everesting.

Then he said, ‘We should do this for The Crunch’. He expected me to say ‘No’. I didn’t. We then decided to coincide it with our retirements and his 60th birthday (one the day before we make our Everesting attempt).

37 times up the Crunch will be about 9,000 meters, a bit more than the height of Everest. According to my calculations, to get to that height will require walking the equivalent of two full marathons, at least 19 hours of uphill walking, and over 100,000 steps. We will be taking breaks. We’ve got family and friends to help drive us down the hill, so that we are only walking up, and not down too. It’s still going to be very hard. The most we’ve done in a day is 10, we will really have to push ourselves to be successful.

Please follow us on Instagram: EverestTheCrunch 

And follow along on August 21st and 22nd.

We e also decided to do a bit of fundraising:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/everest-the-crunch-for-mental-health

And if you are local, come join us for one trip up… in a couple weeks.

Supporting Canada’s KBA’s – Key Biodiversity Areas

Meet Kevin,

He is on a cycling journey across Canada to see as many KBA’s (Key Biodiversity Areas) before it gets too cold to travel by bicycle.

Join him by following his adventures on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/biodiversitybikeride

You can also donate to support the WCS – Wildlife Conservation Society Canada: https://www.justgiving.com/page/biodiversitybikeride

Or you can support Kevin directly with a small donation to buy him fruit or a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/biodiversitybikeride

No matter how you do it, support this amazing young man as he follows his dream to see some key conservation areas across Canada, while also fundraising to support these areas… even if all you do is share his adventures on social media.

Thank you!

More from Kevin:

In my hometown, the last trees of what was once an expansive old-growth forest crashed to the Earth more than 60 years before I was born. Today, it’s the definition of a sprawl: massive stretches of land are covered by separated houses, big lawns, and most of all, concrete. Hardly an inspiring picture of nature.

But just steps from my house, shortly after the forest was completely destroyed, the first efforts were taken to restore it. This reforested park was my small, reliable sanctuary from suburban life. I spent hundreds of hours of my childhood running and biking through its trails. At the time, I didn’t know about the history of the park. I just wanted to run around and have a good sweat in nature. But with every visit, I was reaping the benefits of efforts to protect and restore biodiversity.

In recent years l’ve wanted to return to my earliest loves of exercise and nature, while also doing something positive that I really believed in. “Adventure with purpose” became my mission.

I took some time to think about how I could find that adventure with purpose, and soon I came across Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs). In the simplest terms, KBAs are regions of land and water that are ecologically important because they support a broad variety of species.

As soon as I heard about KBAs, I knew this could be the passion project I had been searching for. I found out there are 121 in Canada with more being added all the time. Now, my goal is to bike to as many as I can, raising awareness and funds to support their conservation.

My name is Kevin, and this is the Biodiversity Bikeride!