Vic's Altitude Sickness

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Hillary & Tensing.......the mountain goat......creeping ivy.....and that Australian bloke who survived on only a Mars bar. All great climbers and maybe one day we'll be mentioned in the same breath as them - if not for our climbing then for our chocolate eating abilities.

If we do attain climbing greatness then we'll need the facts at our fingertips should some wiseguy from the press shout out "What was your total altitude gained....in terms of double-decker buses?"

Total altitude gained on our bikes was 9,165 metres

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Object

Height (metres)

Height (feet)

We climbed the equivalent of...

Eiffel Tower

321 metres

1052 feet

28.55

London Bus

4.3 metres

14.5 feet

2131.40

Mont Blanc

4807 metres

15800 feet

1.91

Mt. Everest

8847 metres

29028 feet

1.04

Mt. Kosciuszko

2228 metres

7310 feet

4.11

Scafell Pike

978 metres

3210 feet

9.37

Nelson's Column

56.4 metres

185 feet

162.5

CN Tower

553.4 metres

1815.5 feet

16.56

Empire State Building

443.2 metres

1453 feet

20.68

Great Wall Of China

7.5 metres

25 feet

1222.0

Storey Bridge

metres

xxx feet

0

Mt Cootha

xxx metres

xxx feet

0

World's Deepest Mine

3585 metres

11762 feet

2.56

Marianas Trench

~11000 metres

~36000 feet

0.83

Taj Mahal

65 metres

213 feet

141.0

Great Pyramid At Giza

137 metres

481 feet

66.9

Grand Canyon

~1830 metres

~6000 feet

5.01

Uluru

867 metres

2844 feet

10.57

Tees Transporter Bridge

48.7 metres

160 feet

188.19

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