I ride my bike a lot. Not 'pro-level-a-lot', but 300 kilometres a week. I think is a fair bit for a bloke with a full-time job, and a family with 2 small kids under 5.

It takes a shed-tonne of planning, and a solid association with the discipline fairy to make that volume work.

They will do it with a smile. They will do it completely selflessly, they will do it, just because you are doing what you are doing.

Our own Brendan Edwards has completed not one, or two but six Everests and has been asked on numerous occasions what it takes to get through an Everest. 

Here’s some advice that he’s learned along the way.