24 Week Expeditionary Mountaineering Training Plan
Our Everest Training Plan gives you the best chance to summit.
Fitness is confidence.
Our #1 best-selling training plan for seven years in a row! Ideal for those who want to maximize their chances of success on a peak like Everest.
This plan focuses on the triumvirate of Uphill Athlete Training: Aerobic Base, Periodized Strength Training, and Specific Muscular Endurance workouts that will have you carrying heavy packs up the steepest hill you can find.
Stick with this plan, and you will see significant fitness changes.
- Developed by coaches who have summited Everest, with 60 years of combined mountaineering experience
- Based on scientifically sound training practices
- Starts with an Aerobic Threshold test
- Designed using 3 training blocks (base, strength, and mountaineering-specific muscular endurance workouts)
- Tips to get the most out of your recovery days
- 24th week is tapered for the week before your expedition
- Updated regularly with cutting-edge training education
- Can be easily extended
- Used successfully by guided and unguided mountaineers
- Perfect for an ascent with oxygen or without
- Only $99!
This plan is trusted by thousands of climbers to increase their fitness to summit Mt. Everest and other challenging 8000m peaks.
Built by Steve House with input from world-class Mountaineers
Yes! This training plan has been used by many successful Everest climbers.
Yes! This training plan us specifically designed to maximize how your body utilizes oxygen at low-intensity, very long climbs of a big mountain like Everest.
Yes! Though we recommend you time your imposed high-altitude sleep with the easiest weeks of the plan, which are programmed to happen in the last weeks before departure.