So true there are risks in very thing one does. It is starting to sound like a bunch of liberals here.
Sit home drink your coffee and beer do nothing it is a bit safer.
I am going out and enjoy life doing things I find enjoyable.
If I die doing one of those things well no one leaves this life alive.
While my sympathy goes out to the victims and their loved ones, I have mixed emotions about why these people died. Like sky diving, mountain climbing by its very nature is dangerous. Climbers know the dangers and take their chances each time the make attempts at climbing to lofty peaks which are but places for birds to perch. No matter what equipment and safeguards are used, one miscalculation, one misstep, etc. and its over.
Amen. The good Lord didn't put us here to live "safely." I think he put us here to live fully.
BTTT
That's what my wise ol' dad used to say: "We're none of us getting out of this alive." And he definitely lived on the edge, much more dangerously than the average person, as a commercial fishermen. Think "Deadliest Catch." When it came to money, he tried to be safe as houses -- too timid and safe, actually! -- but with his life, he pursued a lot of opportunity for joy and thrill, and therefore took a lot of risks. The payoff was grand ... he died at 90, at home, in bed, sleeping next to his long-loved bride, after a long, colorful, fruitful life filled with adventure, learning, and love. Doesn't get better than that.
While I don't regard mountain climbers as "heroes," I do regard them as kindred spirits of sorts.