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Would You Climb Mount Everest?
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:16 am
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:16 am
On Outside the Lines on ESPN right now. Cost starts at $65,000
Might be the most physically challenging feat on Earth.
The Sherpa's are bad arse, 16 died in ice avalanche last April 18th.
Might be the most physically challenging feat on Earth.
The Sherpa's are bad arse, 16 died in ice avalanche last April 18th.
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Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:20 am to BooDreaux
No need I like life
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:20 am to BooDreaux
No.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:20 am to BooDreaux
If I didn't have a family and someone gave me the money to do it I'd think about.
There are more challenging/dangerous climbs.
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Might be the most physically challenging feat on Earth.
There are more challenging/dangerous climbs.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:21 am to BooDreaux
This is green boots. He/She has been on Everest, along with many others for decades.
I have a rule I live by. If there are ever decades old corpses strewn about while doing a hobby. Stop doing that thing.
I have a rule I live by. If there are ever decades old corpses strewn about while doing a hobby. Stop doing that thing.
This post was edited on 4/12/15 at 8:23 am
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:26 am to BooDreaux
I can see the allure to do something so few others have even tried...and even fewer have suceeded at doing...
the risk for sumitt is just too high, but I might try base camp....
the risk for sumitt is just too high, but I might try base camp....
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:27 am to BooDreaux
No. I wouldn't make it. Too fat.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:35 am to Stacked
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I have a rule I live by. If there are ever decades old corpses strewn about while doing a hobby. Stop doing that thing.
That's the case on that mountain.
I'll never attempt Everest but I won't quit being a mountaineer.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:40 am to BooDreaux
I dont like cold, dont like heights, dont like being around nothing but guys. so no.
I am satisfied with being in a group of people that are even fewer. finder of Botrychium lunaroides.
I am satisfied with being in a group of people that are even fewer. finder of Botrychium lunaroides.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:40 am to Spankum
quote:
I can see the allure to do something so few others have even tried...and even fewer have suceeded at doing..
That isn't the case with Everest.
K2, Nanga Parbat, Annapurna, Gasherbrum IV and Kanchenjunga, yes.
Gasherbrum IV has been summited by less than 15 people.
This is nothing against your post but people go nuts over Everest when it just doesn't stack up against the truly difficult mountains to climb in the world. The inexperience of the people now climbing Everest is the biggest problem with climbing the mountain.
This post was edited on 4/12/15 at 8:43 am
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:41 am to VABuckeye
The kill rates on most of the peaks you listed are astronomical
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:53 am to VABuckeye
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K2
Nope. All the nope.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:54 am to BooDreaux
I value my life way more than that.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:57 am to BooDreaux
I wouldn't take 65k to do it, much less pay it.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 9:21 am to LSUintheNW
Yeah, most people don't even try Gasherbrum IV because of the difficulty and the weather patterns around it.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 9:25 am to BooDreaux
No way, one was enough.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 9:31 am to BooDreaux
Nope. Not even if it didnt cost a dime
Posted on 4/12/15 at 9:34 am to VABuckeye
quote:
This is nothing against your post but people go nuts over Everest when it just doesn't stack up against the truly difficult mountains to climb in the world.
It's the highest, end of story. People going to spend 65K to be guided to the summit want to get home and say they climbed the highest mountain on earth.
Reaching the third highest peak rated the most difficult climb doesn't have the same ring to it.
That being said, Everest is plenty tough enough.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 9:38 am to BooDreaux
Nope.
What's the death rate? Gotta be high single digits. 7-8-9%??
There is no activity that I want to engage in Thats that high.
Add to it the misery you must endure. All the while you are looking at your Sherpa. Knowing that guy is much more bad arse than you.
What's the death rate? Gotta be high single digits. 7-8-9%??
There is no activity that I want to engage in Thats that high.
Add to it the misery you must endure. All the while you are looking at your Sherpa. Knowing that guy is much more bad arse than you.
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