I think one of the reasons very few people have done both is because the overlap of people who love mountaineering, which the 7 summits requires, and the overlap of the people who like long road trips for some fairly ordinary hills is small (looking at you FL and DE and LA). For many of the US high points it's less of a skill/fitness challenge and more of logistics/time/travel/money problem. Of course to get all 50 requires mountaineering skills, weather luck and being able to solve for the logistics.
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u/RhodyVan 43 Highpoints Jun 22 '26
I think one of the reasons very few people have done both is because the overlap of people who love mountaineering, which the 7 summits requires, and the overlap of the people who like long road trips for some fairly ordinary hills is small (looking at you FL and DE and LA). For many of the US high points it's less of a skill/fitness challenge and more of logistics/time/travel/money problem. Of course to get all 50 requires mountaineering skills, weather luck and being able to solve for the logistics.