2014 Outdoors: high achievers

Mount Rainier speed record recaptured by ski mountaineer Eric Carter, 3 hours, 51 minutes. Partner Nick Elson dropped back after losing a ski in a crevasse.

Their former Paradise parking lot round-trip record for climbing 14,411-foot Rainier and descending on skis set in 2013 was surpassed about a week later by another team.

Looking back at the trend:

• Climbing legends Lou and Jim Whittaker, with John Day, made the first documented speed ascent/descent on foot in 1959 in 7 hours 20 minutes.

• In 2008, Mountain Madness guide Willie Benegas set a running record for the car-to-car trip in 4 hours 41 minutes.

Pacific Crest Trail speed record for fully supported effort set by Joe McConaughy, 23, of Seattle, averaging about 50 miles a day to run-walk the 2,660-mile route from Mexico to Canada in 53 days, 6 hours 37 minutes.

• Unsupported backpacking PCT record set in 2013 by Heather “Anish” Anderson of Bellingham still stands at 60 days, 17 hours.

Mount Everest record, youngest female to summit: Malavath Purna of India, age 13 years, 11 months.

Paragliding distance record for Washington: 180 miles in 7 hours, 47 minutes by Matt Senior, Seattle.

World-record big-game hunting trophies recognized by Boone and Crockett Club include grizzly bear from Alaska, pronghorn from New Mexico.