When 86-year-old Gerard McCarten finished his latest challenge – cycling the equivalent height of the tallest mountain in the solar system – he went to lift his bike above his head. His legs trembled with exhaustion. His body, worn down by 40 days of riding, cried for him to stop, and he toppled over forwards.
Undeterred, he tried again to lift the bike. He raised it up to his shoulders – “that was as high as I could get it” – and smiling through the triangle of the frame, declared his challenge finished.
