Returning to Everest this May with more knowledge and focus, Chad Kellogg will make a new attempt a speed ascent to the top of the world.

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The trail up and out of the Ouray Ice Park is maybe a 5min walk, if you have full use of your limbs. But last weekend a team of volunteers and athletes with Paradox Sports took however long they needed to get into the park for an incredible weekend of ice.

This weekend, Chad Kellogg will start making way up Aconcagua for a speed attempt, aiming to run and climb from park entrance to top of the peak in ~12 hrs.

At 10 p.m. November 10th, 18 hours into their attempt at the first ascent of Nepal’s 6,625-meter Pangbuk Ri, Chad Kellogg and David Gottlieb faced a dead end. They had anticipated a long single push of ice, rock, snow and mixed climbing up the south face to get to the peak’s 21,735-foot summit. From the [...]

In preparation for a Spring 2012 attempt to set a new speed record on Everest, Chad has a grueling training plan. First up? Attempting to summit Nepal’s last significant unclimbed 6,500m peak, Pangbuk Ri, with David Gottleib.