"EVEREST FRAUD CASE: KILIAN JORNET"

jesseriley wrote:

So he’s telling the truth about Strava, but lying about Suunto, got it.

I don't even understand what you mean. Jornet used a suunto watch to record his summits. He posted that info to Strava. He never said anything about either. Others are saying that info proved he didn't summit. If he knew he was cheating, why didn't he delete the information?

Interesting, if you look up VO2 max records there are plenty of known & suspected dopers on those lists.

We’ve seen many threads on LetsRun about how to cheat with Strava. We’ve seen the Suunto-dead-battery thing. We’ve seen the film that proves/disproves/doesn’t exist (“taking a photo was the last thing on my mind”).

then why are you reading the threads? wrote:

Then why are you reading the threads? I have a very simple solution for you: DON'T CLICK ON THE LINKS AND DON'T READ THE THREADS.

First world problem solved; you're welcome.

Because Dan Howitt is a lunatic and I'm curious if he is ever going to figure out how format a document so it doesn't look like trash and reads like the same. He keeps adding and rehashing things he says is evidence but when you look deeper, it doesn't support his conspiracy theories. He simply dismisses any evidence that doesn't support his lunatic views as "fabricated". He is not neutral, Dan Howitt has a big hard on for Jornet.

The only thing interesting in Howitt's ramblings are the 4 witnesses he says he contacted that say they didn't see Jornet near the summit into he first day. But I don't trust Howitt to be telling the truth or presenting what they said neutrally.

Just answer the last question for me wrote:

jesseriley wrote:

So he’s telling the truth about Strava, but lying about Suunto, got it.

I don't even understand what you mean. Jornet used a suunto watch to record his summits. He posted that info to Strava. He never said anything about either. Others are saying that info proved he didn't summit. If he knew he was cheating, why didn't he delete the information?

It's not that simple. There was plenty of questionable or unethical conduct by Jornet even outside of his GPS data where most of it doesn't even exist for the second day.

Two questions.

1) Did he 100% cheat on purpose? When we were exploring the ultra scene thanks to Hoka's sponsorship, I talked to a guy about Jornet and Everest and it didn't seem to bother him. It certainly bothers me. But the question I have is it possible he thinks he scaled it but was confused because of visibility or brain fogginess?

2) I also was shocked when learning about ultras that several people in the ultra world seemed to think Jornet was on PEDs. How widespread is that belief? Why do people think that?

Rojo,

Re your first query. The summit is unmistakable. In the report on Jornet, there are many pictures of the summit. It is clear when a climber reaches it and when a climber has not. He did this twice on Everest, May 22 and May 27.

Jornet went back to Everest again in 2019. Failed. He turned back in a similar place to where he turned back twice in 2017.

Search, "Jornet Abandons Everest".

Sorry one article is for 2016.

This is for Jornet's 2019 failed attempt.

Despite this, no media connected the controversy of 2017 with his failed 2019 climb.

https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/everest-lhotse-draw-blank-this-autumn-as-kilian-jornet-garrett-madison-abandon-climbing-bids/

One question. Has he ever had an extra large pizza delivered during one of his runs and ate it?

rojo wrote:

thoughts and prayers wrote:

holy cow. how is Dan Howitt still so butt hurt about this stuff?

did Kilian cheat? probably, but nothing he does matters until he runs a flat, fast marathon and gets tested afterwards.

Two questions.

1) Did he 100% cheat on purpose? When we were exploring the ultra scene thanks to Hoka's sponsorship, I talked to a guy about Jornet and Everest and it didn't seem to bother him. It certainly bothers me. But the question I have is it possible he thinks he scaled it but was confused because of visibility or brain fogginess?

2) I also was shocked when learning about ultras that several people in the ultra world seemed to think Jornet was on PEDs. How widespread is that belief? Why do people think that?

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1) Hallucinations are common in high altitude mountaineering (read some of Reinhold Messner’s books). I don’t recall anyone saying that they imagined/hallucinated reaching a summit when they actually didn’t.

2) Testing is lax to nonexistent in ultrarunning. Jornet is one of only a few MUT runners making a very good living off the sport. The opportunity and tangible benefits are there.

jesseriley wrote:

I still don’t understand the bigger picture , if there is one. I hate cheaters, but (at the risk of minimizing the incident) he’s done lots of legit races, right?

This one incident, I take it, was a failure & he couldn't admit he failed, so he crossed the line? I assume he cheated for the sake of either a specific incentive, or his general superman rep, or his sponsorship?

He is a cheater. Stop making excuses for him.

subelite hobbyjogger wrote:

1) Hallucinations are common in high altitude mountaineering (read some of Reinhold Messner’s books). I don’t recall anyone saying that they imagined/hallucinated reaching a summit when they actually didn’t.

There is a lower summit on the way up to Everest (8848m). (Nuplse is 7900m. Lhotse is 8500m. ) It is likely he climbed to the top of some lower peak in the dead of night and assumed he "made" it. He may also have been slight stoned while doing the event.

jesseriley wrote:

Most interesting part of Outside article (possible smoking gun) was the record claim, but withholding evidence and claiming it was “in the movie.”

When the movie came out, no one seemed persuaded by anything in it.

This is what bothered me too. Saving the money shot for the film is a lame idea tbh because the movie now becomes “did he or didn’t he?” And I’ll just look on the forums for spoilers and save myself the money. If the idea is that we know he know he gets up or doesn’t - I want to see Everest and what it’s like to try to climb it.

The lack of a summit photo on Everest is disappointing. Even if it’s for a FKT you want a summit photo or video going “I’m on Mount Fuck1ng Everest - Gobble Gobble MFer!”, you know?

Hello mods,

As long KJ hasn't been proved cheating the thread's title shouldn't say "fraud".

take it easy wrote:

Hello mods,

As long KJ hasn't been proved cheating the thread's title shouldn't say "fraud".

Proved is the go to word used by Trump. Unless someone saw him not climb Everest to the top then he climbed Everest to the top. No proof on his part is required.

take it easy wrote:

Hello mods,

As long KJ hasn't been proved cheating the thread's title shouldn't say "fraud".

How many times did Mike R. post this sort of thing on his thread? He didn’t have to prove he ran a time he was unable to run, people had to prove he didn’t. So lame.

5.7K views of the report against Kilian.

https://ibb.co/gmCZLC9

Famous magazine Desnivel Magazine did this 20 page print-magazine article on the controversy. January issue. It made the cover story. The magazine is in Spain. Kilian is from Spain.

Title of article - The Double Everest of Kilian: The Shadow of the Doubt

How embarrassing.

https://www.desnivel.com/images/2018/02/dnv-380-web.jpg

https://www.scribd.com/document/376340382/Kilian-Jornet-Desnivel

How do you know all his other races were legit? It could be that his whole "career" is a cheat.

Stop digging, Killian, you're a cheat.

thanks!!!