600. Endurance Noise Daily | Reinhold Messner, Jim Beatty and Galen Rupp.

40 years ago on this day, mountaineering great Reinhold Messner shocked the climbing community, and the world, when he summited Everest alone and without supplemental oxygen.   On August 21, 1962, Jim Beatty, three days after setting the outdoor U.S. Mile record, broke his 3:56.5 mark with a 3:56.3 in Helsinki. Bring Back the Mile    FYI, I asked Rupp's coach Mike Smith why he's not running London. Said he felt it was more important to rebuild his speed post-Achilles surgery. Jonathan Gault Endurance Noise & Random Musings Please Subscribe to my YouTube Channel! Stay Healthy. Be Boring. Not Epic.