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re: Anyone know someone who climbed or attempted Everest?
Posted on 10/30/15 at 8:45 pm to makersmark1
Posted on 10/30/15 at 8:45 pm to makersmark1
It's definitely not a trophy travel thing. It's still very difficult. About the only thing that is easier now is weather predictions and the cost has plummeted.
But, Nepal just decided that you have to climb another 8000m peak before you can climb Everest. That will cut down on the number of people attempting.
I'm doing a list, and Everest is the last on it. Not sure I'll get to it before I'm too old to do it, but I hope I do. I'm still young, but it's an expensive list and not easy to take off for a month or more very often.
But, Nepal just decided that you have to climb another 8000m peak before you can climb Everest. That will cut down on the number of people attempting.
I'm doing a list, and Everest is the last on it. Not sure I'll get to it before I'm too old to do it, but I hope I do. I'm still young, but it's an expensive list and not easy to take off for a month or more very often.
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Posted on 10/30/15 at 8:52 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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I know someone who's done K-2
Which is more difficult. K2 kills one climber for every four who summit.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 8:53 pm to Xenophon
K2 the Savage Mountain seems more of a challenge.
I'll do it first.
I'll do it first.
This post was edited on 10/30/15 at 8:54 pm
Posted on 10/30/15 at 8:58 pm to mpar98
No, but I've had a much better much higher view of the earth than the summit of Everest. And my feet were on the ground
Posted on 10/30/15 at 9:00 pm to Cdawg
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Which is more difficult. K2 kills one climber for every four who summit.
Yeah, it looks far more challenging. I watched something about it not too long ago. Seems K-2 is more challenging, Everest is just a benchmark.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 9:05 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I stayed at Richard bass' house in vail one winter. Made me want to attempt the 7 summits.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 9:09 pm to mpar98
I met Lute Jerstad when I was a kid. Long, long time ago.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 9:37 pm to Mars duMorgue
I have always wanted to do the trek to base camp.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 9:38 pm to mpar98
Attempted it. Just couldn't get off the couch.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 9:42 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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I stayed at Richard bass' house in vail one winter. Made me want to attempt the 7 summits.
Yeah, I don't have that kind of drive.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 9:43 pm to mpar98
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Has to be the most intense adventure on Earth
Actually it isnt. That mountain is about standing on top of the world not technical difficulties.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 9:44 pm to LSUintheNW
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Posted on 10/30/15 at 9:49 pm to mpar98
I've never done Everest but I've done an expedition to the top of Driskill Mountain. I think a few more climbs and I'll be ready for Everest though.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 9:52 pm to Tino
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Started a couple threads acting like he was a student at lsu, then posted that he was in his late 20's
I'm an AU student and in my late 20's (military).
Posted on 10/30/15 at 9:53 pm to wheelr
Big wall climbing is cooler than mountaineering all day long.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 10:03 pm to Gaston
My wife and I made it all the way to the top of clingman's dome. Most climbing experts will tell you it's the same as climbing Everest.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 10:04 pm to AUbagman
Yeah , but your arent starting threads about rushing frats and picking up chicks
Posted on 10/30/15 at 10:07 pm to mpar98
My cousin climbed it. At one point, he thought it was the end for him but luckily he made it back.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 10:15 pm to mpar98
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“Taking a trip for six months, you get in the rhythm of it. It feels like you can go on forever doing that. Climbing Everest is the ultimate and the opposite of that. Because you get these high-powered plastic surgeons and CEOs, and you know, they pay $80,000 and have Sherpas put the ladders in place and 8,000 feet of fixed ropes and you get to the camp and you don’t even have to lay out your sleeping bag. It’s already laid out with a chocolate mint on the top. The whole purpose of planning something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain and if you compromise the process, you’re an a-hole when you start out and you’re an a-hole when you get back.”
- Yvon Chouinard
K2 is far more dangerous.
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