They say, if you are going to climb Machu Pichu you should be in top health. You should consult a doctor weeks before your departure and be in peak condition.
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Making the climb along the Incan Trail is a high point on many bucket lists, but that's to make the climb only once.
What would possess a man to make the equivalent trek 36 times in 24 hours? More than 106,000 steps and 7000 floors. 24 hours of continuous climbing.
Local man Warren Wright stepped off the power-mill stair machine at Anytime Fitness around 10am on Thursday morning after climbing for 24 hours.
The last minutes were a gruelling countdown of steps felt through the gym as physios, trainers and gymgoers cheered him on.
"I couldn't stop," Warren said after breaking the world record of 106,604 steps; a feat he undertook to raise funds for cancer research.
Through sweat and tears, he said: "I couldn't because I had a cancer patient come in last night and she is losing her battle. I couldn't stop. I've got nothing to whinge about. I've got my life."
Warren lost more than 24,000 calories in the climb and consumed more than 24 litres of water.
“You won't see many people (doing this),” Anytime Fitness trainer Jake Starkey said.
“You could call it a fitness challenge, but not many would do anything like this. I have never heard of anyone before Wazza going for 24 hours on one machine.”
Jake said the last hours came down to one thing: “I think it is just his mindset.”
“Especially at this time, half an hour out, the only thing getting him through now is just his mindset, his will to do it. That's usually it. It's mind over body.”
Karen Amos, Warren's fiancée, was counting steps in solidarity.
"He is just a goer. Just go, go, go, go, go," she said.
Warren's adoptive mother succumbed to breast cancer, Karen explained. Warren has since raised more than $90,000 in nine years for the Cancer Council and will be the organisation's ambassador next year.
