IThese Cauchois are crazy! As part of Telethon 2024, the small Téléthon Côte d'Albâtre team has been preparing for several weeks a “huge” challenge to be experienced on Saturday November 23, 2024. The latter is aimed at businesses, traders and craftsmen, associations, residents of surrounding villages but also to schools.
But what is this challenge you ask me? It is about “simulate the climb of Mont Blanc (4807m), and why not Everest! (8849m) »indicate the organizers in a press release. The principle of the challenge is that each participant will do it, on behalf of their municipality, their school, their company or their association. Those who are most mobilized will be able – cumulatively – to virtually reach prestigious summits!
Mont Blanc in Saint-Valery-en-Caux?
We understand, the highest European summit is not going to move to Seine-Maritime. This challenge, quite unique, requires a little endurance… Because you will have to climb: “the greatest number of steps of the staircase which goes up to the Costes et Bellontes monument, on the cliff, from the staircase which starts behind the casino of Saint-Valery-en-Caux”, explains Joël Sallé, one of the hosts of the Côte d’Albâtre Telethon team.
This staircase challenge is not, however, a sporting event since everyone climbs the 200 steps to the top at their own pace, but it is the accumulation of climbs (at €2 per passage, the sums entirely donated to the benefit of the Telethon) which is at stake.
The hosts of the event have already done the calculations: “a climb for €2 represents 200 steps x 0.18 m height of a step, we reach 36 meters climbed for a single ascent. It will be necessary at least, totalizing all the participants, to climb this staircase 134 times to represent the 4807m of Mont Blanc and twice as much to claim to have climbed Everest. The participants and groups who have climbed the most steps will be invited during the donation collection at the casino on December 8, 2024. Everyone's motivation will be measured by the “summit” reached: Mont-Blanc or Everest?
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