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| A little snow never killed anyone, but a lot... |
This secretive fitness society pushes the limits of human endurance and nothing — not even frostbite — can stop its creator, Andy Weinberg.
Weinberg’s feet looked like they were
dunked in lava. His toes were ashen black and blue with frostbite. The
pictures of his feet on his phone didn’t seem real.
But with Weinberg,
one of the founders of the Endurance Society and former co-founder and
partner in the Spartan Empire, this wasn’t a joke. An injury like that
was bound to happen. What’s remarkable is it took this long.
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| Weinberg summits snow covered mountain. |
Weinberg got frostbite during a weekend in the
Adirondack Mountains with a crew of 15 people he led on a 48-hour hike
through snow- and ice-covered trails in sub-zero temperatures for fun.
It was the Endurance Society’s annual Extremus event, a weekend-long
hike in the middle of the winter over some of the Northeast’s toughest
and tallest peaks.
At one point during this year’s version, Weinberg
had to stand out in the open, no longer under the cover of trees that
blocked the life-threatening wind chill, and directed people over cliffs
along the Great Range. The team hiked 20-plus miles over eight peaks.
It was one of the coldest weekends of the year and, according to
Weinberg, no one except he and a friend, also named Andy, got injured. More
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| Some people are conquering mountains; the rest of us are getting fat (menshealth.com). |
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