Like many bikers who could not race during the pandemic, Farid Noori planned a major mountain climb to challenge himself. A 2019 Middlebury College grad and native of Afghanistan, Noori wanted to do something other than scale the equivalent of Mount Everest on his bike, so he decided to ride up the Appalachian Gap on Route 17, and to do it 21 times in a row. That would equal the height of Afghanistan’s tallest mountain, Mt. Naw Shakh, which is 24,580 feet tall. And he would raise money through the ride to b … (read more)
