Everesting Ba Vi is the challenge of cycling up and down the 1000m Ba Vi mountain 9 times in aid of Newborns Vietnam.
This is an excellent charity that not only does fine work to reduce infant mortality in Vietnam, but also robustly evaluates the impact of what they do.
A team of riders will help David Lloyd make all 9 ascents. The team is:
Linh Dinh, Klavs Nielsen, Richard Leech, Claudio Dordi, Mark Prykaza, Matt Larkin and Guim Valls Teruel.
Eversting is perhaps the toughest and most extreme of cycling challenges. It entails cycling the height of Mount Everest (8,848m) in one continuous effort.
“Everesting” is a first for Vietnam and the mountain to be conquered is Ba Vi in the national park west of Hanoi. Ba Vi doesn't offer many views, which adds to the toughness; it is a 12 km tunnel of trees on a punishing gradient.
This incredibly challenging ride is raising funds for Newborns Vietnam’s work to improve the survival rates of newborn infants in Vietnam.
The stats are mind-boggling. To try and put the challenge into some kind of context, it's 9 times up Alpe D'huez, 6 times up Mont Ventoux or 5 times up the Stelvio... It's the equivalent climbing of a double Maratona dles Dolomites - arguably the toughest sportive in the world. The steepest and toughest climb in the UK, the 33% Hardknott Pass would need to be scaled 30 times. If you fancied Everesting the sportive Mecca of Box Hill you would have to climb it 69 times.
David Knight, a Hanoi cyclist says: "Having climbed more than a few of the most famous climbs in France I can say with conviction that these are some of the hardest ascent metres I have yet encountered. I could not believe we only had 1,000 metres yesterday as if felt more like 2,000+ on most of the big cols in France. Mount Ventoux has nothing on Ba Vi!"
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