- 26 小时不靠氧气瓶、不靠固定绳，还带着食物中毒，西班牙越野跑者基利安·乔纳特这样跑上了珠峰；五天后他又跑了一次，只用 17 小时。
- 他从 1 岁半就跟着妈妈徒步 5 小时，3 岁参加越野滑雪比赛，10 岁徒步穿越比利牛斯山脉 42 天，几乎整个童年都在为高海拔运动打基础。
- 静息心率只有 33 次/分钟（普通人 60、运动员 40），呼吸效率和乳酸代谢速度都远超常人，但真正让他与众不同的是习惯性挑战身心极限。
- 文章用具体数字（训练小时数、心率、比赛用时）层层堆叠他的"非典型人类"形象，读的时候要留意这些数据怎么服务于整体论点。
重点内容
原文 / 段落
When you picture mountain climbers scaling Mount Everest, what probably comes to mind are teams of climbers with Sherpa guides leading them to the summit, equipped with oxygen masks, supplies and tents. And in most cases you'd be right, as 97 per cent of climbers use oxygen to ascend to Everest's summit at 8,850 metres above sea level. The thin air at high altitudes makes most people breathless at 3,500 metres, and the vast majority of climbers use oxygen past 7,000 metres. A typical climbing group will have 8–15 people in it, with an almost equal number of guides, and they'll spend weeks to get to the top after reaching Base Camp.
But ultra-distance and mountain runner Kilian Jornet Burgada ascended the mountain in May 2017 alone, without an oxygen mask or fixed ropes for climbing.
Oh, and he did it in 26 hours.
With food poisoning.
And then, five days later, he did it again, this time in only 17 hours.
Born in 1987, Kilian has been training for Everest his whole life. And that really does mean his whole life, as he grew up 2,000 metres above sea level in the Pyrenees in the ski resort of Lles de Cerdanya in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain. While other children his age were learning to walk, Kilian was on skis. At one and a half years old he did a five-hour hike with his mother, entirely under his own steam. He left his peers even further behind when he climbed his first mountain and competed in his first cross-country ski race at age three. By age seven, he had scaled a 4,000er and, at ten, he did a 42-day crossing of the Pyrenees.
He was 13 when he says he started to take it 'seriously' and trained with the Ski Mountaineering Technical Centre (CTEMC) in Catalonia, entering competitions and working with a coach. At 18, he took over his own ski-mountaineering and trail-running training, with a schedule that only allows a couple of weeks of rest a year. He does as many as 1,140 hours of endurance training a year, plus strength training and technical workouts as well as specific training in the week before a race. For his record-breaking ascent and descent of the Matterhorn, he prepared by climbing the mountain ten times until he knew every detail of it, even including where the sun would be shining at every part of the day.
Sleeping only seven hours a night, Kilian Jornet seems almost superhuman. His resting heartbeat is extremely low at 33 beats per minute, compared with the average man's 60 per minute or an athlete's 40 per minute. He breathes more efficiently than average people too, taking in more oxygen per breath, and he has a much faster recovery time after exercise as his body quickly breaks down lactic acid – the acid in muscles that causes pain after exercise.
All this is thanks to his childhood in the mountains and to genetics, but it is his mental strength that sets him apart. He often sets himself challenges to see how long he can endure difficult conditions in order to truly understand what his body and mind can cope with. For example, he almost gave himself kidney failure after only drinking 3.5 litres of water on a 100km run in temperatures of around 40°C.
It would take a book to list all the races and awards he's won and the mountains he's climbed. And even here, Kilian's achievements exceed the average person as, somehow, he finds time to record his career on his blog and has written three books, *Run or Die*, *The Invisible Border* and *Summits of My Life*.
生词表
| 英文 | 中文 | 备注 |
|---|---|---|
| ascend | 攀登、上升 | 比 climb 更正式，常用于登山/海拔语境 |
| fixed ropes | 固定绳（登山用） | 登山术语，提前固定在岩壁上供攀爬者抓握 |
| under one's own steam | 靠自己的力气独立完成 | 习语，强调没有外力帮助 |
| take over | 接管 | take over his own training：自己接手管理训练 |
| endurance training | 耐力训练 | |
| resting heartbeat | 静息心率 | |
| break down lactic acid | 分解乳酸 | break down 这里是"分解"而非"故障" |
| set apart | 使…与众不同 | set sb apart from others |
| exceed | 超过 | 比 more than 更正式 |
| kidney failure | 肾衰竭 | |
| Sherpa guide | 夏尔巴向导 | 珠峰攀登常用的向导族群 |
| breathless | 喘不过气 |
理解要点
- 全文靠数字说话（26 小时、17 小时、33 次心率），读的时候把这些数字圈出来，是作者论证"非典型人类"的核心证据。
- 用了不少短句甚至单独成段的碎句（"Oh, and he did it in 26 hours." "With food poisoning."）制造戏剧效果，注意这种收尾式的段落结构，不要按常规长句期待去读。
- 时间线是跳跃的（1 岁半 → 3 岁 → 7 岁 → 10 岁 → 13 岁 → 18 岁），要自己在脑内排出年龄顺序才能看懂"训练一生"这个论点怎么成立。
- 最后一段列出他的比赛/著作，是给论点收尾的证据清单，不需要逐条记住，只要理解这段的功能是佐证"超出常人"。
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