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@LCB: Great questions.
@Andrew Bollard: Good feedback and analysis.
So I don’t have anything of significance to offer because Andrew did a good job with his reply.
The last time I did this was at age 52, and I was pretty bodily broken then as well. So, I can relate. At 69 I’m not sure I could pull off those times again. You do not want to have to go at a max effort for this portion of the climb because going full out for 6-10 hours at that altitude will completely trash you for a few days. So it needs to be a controlled aerobic effort. It also depends on how well you do at altitude and how well-acclimated you are. The only real way to know is to try it. As a test, you might consider a car-to-car on Rainier’s Disappointment Cleaver or Ingrahm Glacier routes. If you can do that 3000m in under 12 hours, you’d probably have a very good chance of pulling off the 14-summit on Deanli in about the same time.
Like most things in life, the answer depends on so many things.
Scott