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Given the option would you climb Mt Everest?
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:46 pm
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:46 pm
If you had the trip paid for and everything would you do it? Or maybe just go up to the base camp? Lots of normal folk seem to be doing it. A lot of dead bodies up there too. I would though, certainly a memory for life type of thing.
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Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:47 pm to DavidTheGnome
The cold and lack of oxygen would be a problem for me.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:48 pm to DavidTheGnome
Absolutely, but you have to pay for the top expeditions. The majority of the people that die did it on the cheap without proper support.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:48 pm to DavidTheGnome
I hate being cold, frick that
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:48 pm to DavidTheGnome
Absolutely not.
The result would be me dying from unnecessary causes.
The result would be me dying from unnecessary causes.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:48 pm to DavidTheGnome
I would for sure take an all expenses paid trip to basecamp.
Summiting? Depends how long I have to prepare.
Summiting? Depends how long I have to prepare.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:49 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:49 pm to DavidTheGnome
Yeah, nah.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:49 pm to DavidTheGnome
Sure, as long as knee surgery is paid for. I have a torn meniscus that would need to be taken care of first.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:49 pm to DavidTheGnome
No, I’ll just ride Expedition Everest in Disney World instead
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:50 pm to DavidTheGnome
Please take my picture down. Thanks.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:50 pm to DavidTheGnome
Yea I’d absolutely do it. Tried to get a group together to climb Mt. Fuji when I was in Okinawa but they were pussies.
This post was edited on 5/28/18 at 9:10 pm
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:50 pm to DavidTheGnome
I was watching a show about searching for the Yeti earlier tonight and one of the guys got really sick. I started thinking about the same thing. Not sure what I would do.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:51 pm to DavidTheGnome
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certainly a memory for life type of thing.
If you live.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:52 pm to DavidTheGnome
Try to climb it, no.
Go to base camp, probably not.
To try to climb it is going to involve weeks or months of training to some extent even if a sherpa is mostly going to drag me up the mountain. Even then, the odds are maybe 50/50.
I'm going to look at the opportunity cost and just say no. If I take a month or two off of work (even if the Everest trip is paid for), I can think of a lot of other things I would rather be doing than suffering on the other side of the world to climb a large rock.
Go to base camp, probably not.
To try to climb it is going to involve weeks or months of training to some extent even if a sherpa is mostly going to drag me up the mountain. Even then, the odds are maybe 50/50.
I'm going to look at the opportunity cost and just say no. If I take a month or two off of work (even if the Everest trip is paid for), I can think of a lot of other things I would rather be doing than suffering on the other side of the world to climb a large rock.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:52 pm to DavidTheGnome
I live at sea level. That would be a rough adjustment.
Plus it's dangerous and uncomfortable.
Plus it's dangerous and uncomfortable.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:52 pm to Roman Candle Tag
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Summiting? Depends how long I have to prepare.
It usually takes 1-2 months of partial climbs and descents to get acclimated even for seasoned climbers.
By the time they summit they have hiked enough to have climbed all of Everest several times over.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:52 pm to TDcline
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Tried to get a group together to climb Mt. Fiji when I was in Okinawa but they were pussies.
Yeah they’re pretty much the same thing.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:53 pm to DavidTheGnome
No, even with the best outfitters, and being in peak physical condition, the weather is too unpredictable, it suddenly changes you die.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:54 pm to DavidTheGnome
Yes, if the 40k was covered.
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