Posted on 10/22/2016 10:34:05 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The expedition Tabei helped lead on Everest was made entirely of women (not including six Sherpas). She also helped find sponsorship — although in many cases, "We were told we should be raising children instead," she said in 2012.
Tabei downplayed her achievement — "I was the 36th person to climb Everest," she told Sports Illustrated.
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She is in fact similar to Jose Jimenez, a very famous astronaut!
Leave no trace. /s
“Running serpentine under fire?”
She’s more likely to slither on her belly.
True that about the Sherpas, they're the heavy lifters since they live in the higher altitudes.
As far as installing the ladders and ropes and stuff, Everest has become so commercialized that the common trail is already installed and all one needs is to contract with any of the 30 or so Everest outfitters (at a cost of about $30,000) and schedule your climb. For an extra $5,000 or so, they'll even give you some mountain training a week before you start your climb.
I'm not saying that it's a hike in the park but it's definitely not your grandfather's Mt. Everest............
As a side note, the contract you have to sign states that if you die on the mountain you stay on the mountain. Nobody is going to waste their trip in hauling your dead ass back down the hill..........LOL!
“Everest is the highest garbage dump in the world”
Yep, everything imaginable including a lot of Corpses. There are a lot of published photo’s of Corpses, many going back decades. Very haunting.
On top of that, it's one way. Ya gotta wait your turn in both directions.
One of my favorite movies is THE RAZORS EDGE with Bill Murray.
Murray’s character (much like Murray) is seeking the meaning of life.
He goes to Tibet to a Buddhist monastery. The head monk has him do their cooking. Then he sends Murray up to a shack on top of a mountain with a bunch of books.
Murray eventually uses the books to make a fire and comes down from the mountain.
I love the view from the top of a mountain, but I’ll never find the meaning of life there.
By the way, my old friend Alex Lowe was buried in an avalanche in Tibet about sixteen years ago. They found his body this year.
The climbing magazines all talk about what a great guy Alex Lowe was.
Alex Lowe was a great guy before he ever set foot in Tibet.
Even with the Sherpas,ladders and fixed line, still lots and lots of hard humping!
Put on a pack with twenty five pounds or more personal junk, the full extreme cold kit and ascend (jug) a few pitches!
Have heard that the Hillary Step is about a 5.8, a walk up!
But you are wearing crampons, heavy gloves...
IIRC Nat Geo sponsored an expedition using 1920’s clothes and equipment.
The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest ????
Also a documentary about making the hobnailed boots, wool clothing...
I have met other top climbers last name Lowe, brothers that also make Lowe Alpine equipment.
So long ago it is like a past existence!
My son an active climber, recently sent me a scan from an old guide book. In it was a listing for a route my partner and I put up in 1981. We are listed for the first!
In an old, now out of print book!
My fifteen minutes of fame, came and went; I missed it!
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