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29029 Everesting · Snowbasin, Utah · June 12–13, 2026FINISHED

30,030 feet. On foot. No sleep.

Bruce climbed Snowbasin's 2,310-ft course thirteen times in 31h 55m — 1,001 feet higher than Mount Everest.

Laps
13/13
every one to the top
Gun to summit
31h 55m
4h 05m inside the cutoff
Time climbing
25h 18m
off his feet just 6h 38m
Sleep
0h 00m
not a minute

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How it works

Every mile of it is uphill.

One lap: 2.3 miles and 2,310 vertical feet at a 19% average grade. The gondola takes you down; only your legs take you up. Do that thirteen times, inside 36 hours.

2,310 ft2.3 mi · 19% gradegondola ↓×13, inside 36 hours
Bruce mid-lap with trekking poles at the 1,000 ft elevation gain banner on the Snowbasin course
1,000 feet up, 1,310 to go — the first marker on every one of thirteen laps.

The ascent

Scroll down. He went up.

The whole climb on one clock — 32 hours across, 30,030 feet tall. The slope of each step is his real pace; flat stretches are gondola rides and breaks. The staircase only ever climbs.

night↑ 4,362 ft — three Empire State Buildings↑ 5,280 ft — the elevation of Denver↑ 10,868 ft — four Burj Khalifas↑ 18,000 ft — Denali, base to summitMT. EVEREST — 29,029 FT1h 53m at 3:30 AM — the longest he stopped. That was the sleep.lap 1† · 6:00 AMlap 7 · 6:32 PMlap 13 · 11:24 AM30,030 ftFri 6:00 AMSat 1:55 PM
night↑ three Empire State Buildings↑ the elevation of Denver↑ four Burj Khalifas↑ Denali, base to summitMT. EVEREST — 29,029 FT1h 53m at 3:30 AMthe longest he stopped — that was the sleeplap 1† · 6:00 AMlap 13 · 11:24 AM30,030 ftFri 6:00 AMSat 1:55 PM
The event's wooden lap board: a branded triangle burned into row 156, Bruce Hilty, for each completed lap
The mountain kept its own ledger — one triangle branded into the board per summit. Row 156: full.

Minutes per lap

The mountain never got steeper. The legs got heavier.

120 min1†75 min†2345678910111213151 min
120 min1†75 min†2345678910111213151 min

The last lap took twice as long as the first. He climbed it anyway.

† Lap 1: Bruce forgot to start his lap timer until roughly halfway up, so its first 27 minutes are reconstructed from the 6:00 AM gun. The hatched piece is the reconstruction. Every other number on this page is straight off the clock.

The night

He watched the sun set and rise from the same trail.

Sunset just after 9 PM Friday. Sunrise just before 6 AM Saturday. In between: three full laps on a headlamp.

The 29029 triangle logo lit on the rock face at the summit under a starry night sky
The summit, deep in the dark — the triangle burned on the rock face all night, waiting at the top of every lap.
finished — 4h 05m earlycutoff · Sat 6 PMFri 6 AMlaps 8–10: headlamp
finished — 4h 05m earlycutoff · Sat 6 PMFri 6 AMlaps 8–10: headlamp

25h 18m of these 32 hours were spent climbing — he was off his feet for less than 7. The longest he ever stopped was 1h 53m, at 3:30 AM. That was the sleep.

Laps in the dark
3
headlamp on
Lap 9 start
11:08 PM
Friday night
Lap 10 start
1:26 AM
Saturday morning
Hours awake
32+
gun to final summit
Sunrise over the ridge at Snowbasin with a climber ascending the trail and the gondola line overhead
Saturday morning, lap 11 — the sun came back. He was still climbing.

What it cost the body

20.7of 21
021 max

WHOOP scores daily strain on a logarithmic scale that tops out at 21. Day one read 20.7. That's not a high score — that's the gauge, pegged.

His heart rate never got to go home.

WHOOP's running average heart rate for the day, sampled at each summit. It only ever went one way.

85126lap 1 start · Friday 6 AMlap 10 summit · Saturday 3:30 AM
85126lap 1 start · Friday 6 AMlap 10 summit · Saturday 3:30 AM
Max heart rate
188
beats per minute
Calories burned
18,847
≈ 9 days of food, in two — WHOOP-measured
Steps
119,444
90,841 of them on Friday alone
Ascent rate
1,187
vertical ft/hour while climbing

MT. EVEREST — 29,029 FT

Saturday, early afternoon, lap 13 — somewhere on that stretch of trail he passed the summit height of Mount Everest. Then he kept climbing.

Final summit

30,030 FT

1:55 PM Saturday — 4h 05m inside the 36-hour cutoff.

Bruce with trekking poles beside the red 29029 summit marker, the valley far below
The summit marker. He stood here thirteen times.
Empire State Buildings
20
stacked, base to antenna
Burj Khalifas
10.7
the world's tallest building
Miles on foot
29.9
every one of them uphill
Feet above Everest
+1,001
and then he stopped
COROS watch face reading 29,206 ft elevation gain and 31:56 activity time, next to the red BIB 156 wristband
The wrist's own receipt: 31:56 on the clock, 29,206 ft measured barometrically. The course math says 30,030. Either way — more than Everest.
The 29029 Snowbasin finisher medal, a brass triangle, held in his hand
Heavier than it looks.
Bruce after finishing, in the red 29029 hat and Snowbasin ascent finisher shirt
Thirteen summits later.

// climb · ride down · repeat ×13