LONDON: The anti-coronavirus lockdown may have left plenty of Britons ready to scale their walls in frustration, but runner John Griffin has put his pent-up energy to better use - by climbing the height of Mount Everest up his staircase.
It took Griffin four days to climb 41,000 steps at his three-story house in West Sussex, equivalent to the 8,850 metres that the world’s highest mountain measures. His effort has so far raised £3,500 ($4,340) for a charity that supports more than 1,200 UK food banks. Using a computer programmed by his neighbour to track his progress, he almost came unstuck on day three when his knee began to hurt, but took his wife’s advice to tape frozen peas to it and managed to push on, finally reaching the ‘summit’ after 29 hours of ‘climbing”. His family was waiting on the rooftop terrace when he ran up the stairs for the final time. “It was a real sense of achievement,” he added.
It took Griffin four days to climb 41,000 steps at his three-story house in West Sussex, equivalent to the 8,850 metres that the world’s highest mountain measures. His effort has so far raised £3,500 ($4,340) for a charity that supports more than 1,200 UK food banks. Using a computer programmed by his neighbour to track his progress, he almost came unstuck on day three when his knee began to hurt, but took his wife’s advice to tape frozen peas to it and managed to push on, finally reaching the ‘summit’ after 29 hours of ‘climbing”. His family was waiting on the rooftop terrace when he ran up the stairs for the final time. “It was a real sense of achievement,” he added.
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