- September 21, 2024 TOKYO (AP) — If you’re trying to lose weight and want a new way to do it, stair-climbing as a regular exercise — or just adding a few flights a day — might be for you.

Personal trainer Jennifer Scherer climbed the tallest mountain in Africa with clients in their 60s. She said simple exercises like rucking and wall-sits are key to maintaining strength as you age.

Mountain Tops, a program that hosts twice-weekly exercise classes for young adults with physical, mental or emotional developmental disabilities, is growing and needs more volunteers.

The mountain is the great equalizer. The grade is the grade and the vertical is the vertical, no matter your size, build, or body composition.

Climbing Mount Everest involves a lot of long-distance hiking so I was working on cardio. K2, the Savage Mountain, required a lot of technical training, so I focused on that.

If stair-climbing was an Olympic sport, Suzy Walsham would own a handful of gold medals. She's won 10 races up New York's Empire State Building — officially 1,576 stairs.