The large-scale Toyota EverTest project is complete. For three months (2016 April, May and June), this project united brave and strong-minded mountaineers who took the challenge of the world’s highest mountain, and legendary SUVs of the Land Cruiser family.
The Land Cruiser 200 and the Land Cruiser Prado, unbeatable and designed for testing to the limits, have again proved their toughness, travelling a path of 15,250 kilometres in extreme road and altitude conditions, providing reliable support to the expedition during the climb and coming back to Moscow without a single failure.
All the members of the united team were able to realise their ambitions, for they climbed Mount Everest, the highest mountain on the Earth, and collected exclusive materials to show the world’s greatest peak to as many people as possible. The legendary Land Cruisers will be integrated in these materials.
Legends are told and movies are made about Everest, but nobody has ever managed to show the real climb from its bottom to the top. It was an ambitious idea of Valdis Pelsh’s and RD Studio, a company producing documentaries, to do a real-time story about real people, the fearless conquerors of the world’s greatest mountain, that gave a start to this project.
So was born the Toyota EverTest project based on a common ambitious idea and it brought together the unique peak, strong and spirited people, and Toyota’s Land Cruiser SUVs.
The expedition started 7000 kilometres away from the Everest base camp, and it was essential to go all this way knowing the cars would not fail. However, the cars provided reliable support not only en route. The Land Cruisers protected the mountaineers’ lives during training climbs. The climbers appreciated permanent mobility and the possibility to protect some team members from acute mountain sickness by coming down and having a rest below the base camp’s altitude.
Unlike the Land Cruisers that are able to go through serious testing as they are, with the standard equipment, the expedition members required rigorous training and all possible moral and physical efforts in order to climb a peak of 8848 metres.
Since all participants received thorough training and could use timely transportation in the event of getting sick, during the expedition all climbers stayed healthy, were able to make the most challenging climb and get back home safe.
Everybody wants to see Everest, but few dare climb it, and even fewer get to the top. Thanks to the EverTest project during which all members of the united team collected exclusive photo and video materials, all details of the Everest climb are now available to a wider audience along with the opportunity to make a street view “climb” to the top on Yandex Maps web portal.
Upon coming back to Moscow, the Land Cruiser 200 and the Land Cruiser Prado had a full technical diagnostics at an official Toyota dealership. Despite the most severe operating conditions at altitudes of up to 5374 metres, the parameters of the various systems of both SUVs conform to the standards taking into account the covered mileage. There were no notes on the cars’ condition, and it only required replacing consumables.
But it was not the end of trials for the Everest-tested SUVs. The cars are ready for new achievements and will soon add them to their chronicles by taking part in new large-scale projects and extending the Land Cruisers’ boundaries. 
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