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re: Climbing Mt Everest - WYDI and WHY??
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:33 pm to gingerkittie
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:33 pm to gingerkittie
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there is a good chance you will die
It's actually fairly low, around 6.5% of all who actually reached the summit. Of course, it's lower than that for everyone who tried, around 1.5%. The vast majority do just fine.
The real problem is how much time and money it takes. You can plan on taking at least 3 months off work and paying $75k and up. And that doesn't include the other climbs you make to get ready for Everest. For example, Denali, probably multiple Rainier ascents, a couple of others at altitude.
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Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:35 pm to gingerkittie
Hell no. You have to be a moronic egomaniac to want to spent that kind of money to do something so pointlessly dangerous.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:36 pm to gingerkittie
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WYDI
No
quote:
WHY??
It's cold and it's high and I have a pretty awesome life so I'd like to stay alive as long as I can
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:39 pm to foshizzle
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The real problem is how much time and money it takes. You can plan on taking at least 3 months off work and paying $75k and up. And that doesn't include the other climbs you make to get ready for Everest. For example, Denali, probably multiple Rainier ascents, a couple of others at altitude.
Not to mention the time to train. Friend of mine thought he was in good shape. Went with 3 others. He failed miserably.
Since then he has spent the last 2 years becoming a long distance runner. 50k's are his norm now and he's hoping to go again.
Typical summits at Denali require 3 weeks of time off depending on the weather.
And there aren't people there to drag your shite up. You haul a sled with a ton of gear to base camp and I think 1 more camp.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:40 pm to yellowfin
The altitude would be doubly tough on we LA flatlanders who have lived the majority of our lives at 100’ AMSL or less. Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:41 pm to Pax Regis
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to do something so pointlessly dangerous.
You have no idea the high that you get from achieving a summit.
That said, the mountains in the NW are good enough for me. I can easily die here without spending serious money.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:42 pm to gingerkittie
Let me do Denali first
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:43 pm to jimbeam
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Let me do Rainier first
FIFY
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:45 pm to gingerkittie
Did it twice just because I could
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:45 pm to gingerkittie
No interest. Hard pass.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:45 pm to gingerkittie
I would not. Not only do I not like cold and walking up steep grades, I like all my body parts. Everybody that goes loses at least a few fingers, toes, nose, etc. No thanks.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:47 pm to Walt OReilly
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I couldn’t do it
Females like yourself certainly couldn’t do it
Damn right I couldn't nor would I want to. It's just fascinating to me that some people put themselves out there like that.
2 of the women on that expedition were two idiots who had no business up there. One was was an idiotic rich bitch (Sandy Pittman) who had the Sherpa pulling her arse up the mountain instead of maintaining and establishing the lines that everyone needed to climb. She should have died up there but they saved her.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:47 pm to gingerkittie
too mainstream.. would summit K2 instead
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:50 pm to gingerkittie
Hell no I know my limits....I'd have tried it at 20 maybe.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:51 pm to Lawyers_Guns_Money
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Started with smaller mountains (Rainier
How hard was that? Did you go with a company?
I have started to have a good bit of interest of climbing.
I would never do Everest or anything like that because one I couldn't afford it, two couldn't justify it with a family, and three I'm probably not man enough. If some tragedy struck and I lost my entire family I'd probably give it a go though, suicide by mountain or something.
I'd like to do just the trek to base camp though, even that looks like it would be a really cool experience.
This post was edited on 1/17/18 at 4:55 pm
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:51 pm to gingerkittie
Listen to the Joe Rogan podcast with Jeff Evans. Interesting perspective of someone who did it because someone needed him to do it.
I listened to motivational speaker who failed once and summited another time. It didn’t seem like it was done for some spiritual awakening or personal journey. It was more “look at me!!”
I listened to motivational speaker who failed once and summited another time. It didn’t seem like it was done for some spiritual awakening or personal journey. It was more “look at me!!”
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:53 pm to gingerkittie
You can be cautious and do it right and die? Nope.
Sherpas die all the time. No thanks.
No “snow naps” for me. (Stolen from Joe Rogan podcast).
Sherpas die all the time. No thanks.
No “snow naps” for me. (Stolen from Joe Rogan podcast).
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:55 pm to gingerkittie
Read Bear Grylls account of climbing Everest. Said it was the most difficult thing he had ever done and keep in mind he had just successfully gone through SAS qualification before that.
Fun to think about but no way.
Fun to think about but no way.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 4:56 pm to LSU alum wannabe
I would freak the hell out crossing those lashed together ladders they use to cross the crevasses in the icefall.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 5:01 pm to JoePepitone
Everest is a tourist trap now. It’s all about K2 baws
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