American, Australian expats break Phnom Aural ascent record

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Earlier this month, two NGO workers based out of Phnom Penh shattered the existing record for the fastest ascent up Phnom Aural from the established trailhead. Jacob Sims (United States) and Julien Brewster (Australia) conquered the trail which ascends from the trailhead at 225-m to a staggering 1,813-m over 10 steep kilometres in a verified elapsed time of 2 hours, 26 minutes and 36 seconds – breaking the previous record by more than an hour.

 

The old record was set in 2020 by another duo of foreigners, David Minetti and Fred Zalokar. Minetti is a former French Special Forces soldier and adventure tourism entrepreneur (C4 Adventures). The late Zalokar was a renowned American trail runner who had set speed and first ascent records on peaks around the world.

 

Zalokar was most famous for being the first person to win the Master’s age group at all five of the world’s marathon ‘majors.’ Jean-Benoît Lasselin, also of C4, validated the duo’s record on February 17, 2020.

 

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