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Tom Davidson

'I was in a very dark place at 4am' - cyclist climbs hill 251 times to complete gruelling ultra-Everesting

Paul Clark after completing his Stock Hill ultra-Everesting.

How well do you know your local climb? Pretty well, you might say, but not as well as Paul Clark knows his, having cycled up it 251 times last weekend.

Clark, who is in his mid-fifties, rode for 27 hours up and down the steep Stock Hill in the London Borough of Bromley, climbing over 12,000m in total – more than 3,000m above the height of Mount Everest.

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