A man from the USA has become the fastest man ever to push a peanut up a mountain using his nose.
This is a very strange record to break and you might think that this world record would also make him the only man to push a peanut up a mountain with his nose, but strangely you’d be wrong.
Fifty-three-year-old Bob Salem is actually the fourth person to attempt this feat of endurance.
Salem arrived at the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado on Friday morning, finishing his efforts after a full seven days.
However, the previous record was eight days, meaning he’s now the record holder; something he’s understandably pretty chuffed about.
Explaining his survival technique, Salem said that he had to do much of the work at night in order to avoid the blistering heat and the many distractions on the mountain.
He said:
“When I did it in the daylight, I’d have to stop every 10 minutes, five minutes, and take some pictures, talk to some people and do all that kind of stuff so it kind of dragged on the trip a little.
“I don’t feel sore or anything but I know I lost some weight.
“My muscles are fine, it was just doing the back and forth that really took it out of me.”
Over the course of the week, he reckons that he got through about two dozen peanuts, simply because some of them would fall through cracks in the rocks and couldn’t be retrieved.
The idea had been that he’d have someone on hand beside him with a backpack and some supplies, but that didn’t happen in the end, and Salem embarked on a solo mission.
He’d hike a bit up the trail with his stuff, then dump it down and head back down, before making his way up shoving the peanut with his conk.
Along the way, he subsisted on a diet of peanuts – obviously – as well as crackers, pop tarts, and – get this – ‘an old can of survival food from 1964’ and ‘carbohydrate candies’ that he ate to keep going.
Salem was also presented with two plaques commemorating his effort.
