

Samuel Giammarino and Garrett Brandes Achieve World Record for Longest Documented Hike to a Mountaintop Sword Duel
After hiking 1.1 miles to the summit of Mount Kearsarge in New Hampshire, lifelong friends completed a sword duel before onlookers, witnesses, and a mountain sky. By Atlas Editorial Team 3 June 2026 • Wilmot, New Hampshire [USA] A Mountain, a Rivalry, and the Old Human Urge to Climb There are records born from laboratories, stadiums, stopwatches, and spreadsheets. And then there are records born from something older and stranger: two friends, a mountain, a pair of swords, a
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