[Scott Johnston]

@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