Posted on 04/06/2010 10:30:44 AM PDT by piperpilot
A 13-year-old California boy plans to try to climb Mount Everest in a quest to reach the summits of the highest peaks on all seven continents.
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She was exactly the person I thought of too. Parents who use their children to achieve some kind of greatness through them.
Wow, that was the first thing I thought of, too.
Is this child an orphan? Where are the parents/guardians? This is just, well, stupid. The local authorities should not allow it, period.
Maybe he should try something difficult—like getting CA legislators to reduce spending on their union buddies.
I met the kid and his dad on a hike at Runyon Canyon prior to his climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. It appeared to me his dad was the one doing the pushing so his kid would be famous. At that time his dad was thinking about hitting the 7 highest mountains so his kid would be the youngest to do all. These aren’t cheap trips so his dad must have a ton of money from some where. It’s not from his job in Big Bear.
>”Is this child an orphan?”
Might as well be. He’s from Kalifornia.
That is a lie troll and you have been called on it repeatedly, do not drag your radical troll techniques into every thread, that is a form of stalking.
Why would you so freak out and launch such a personal attack and even lie, simply over a post that says that I don't think that this climb by the boy is so unreasonable?
This climb is costing the family $150,000.00.
Maybe someone here can verify this but I think I read somewhere that 10% of the people who attempt to scale Everest end up dead. Is this true? I don’t like those odds. This is madness with this child. The dad ought to be in jail.
According to this, it’s 9.3%:
http://www.mounteverest.net/story/stories/EvrstvsBigMa-killrstatistisMar22004.shtml
At least climbing Everest it only takes a couple of days and there are other people around. Down in the Southern Ocean it gets lonely
"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company." - Samuel Johnson (Unless you are doing solitary)
Unreasonable? Everest is littered with corpses. They really need more corpsemen.
LOL! McCainiac alert! “Yeah let the kid climb Everest and become a popsicle up there. Maybe he can call a Corpseman.”
How are things in AZ today at John McShame HQ? Does his creepy wife provide free beer to the office trying to re-eleect the fraud?
Not quite, they are relating it to the number of people who made it to the top.
True figure of risk is the number of people who attempt it. IIRC twice as many people fail to reach the top as succeed.
So that drops the risk of death to 3%
Jon Krakauer’s book: Into Thin Air does a good job of explaining how it can happen.
the same kind of parents that let the ‘under-10’ year old girl try to ‘sorta-solo’ across the country. You member....the one that got killed in a crash?
Frantzie, I am not a McCain supporter, but you are a Romney supporter and a Rudy Giuliani supporter.
What has got you so worked up and excited on this thread that you are acting troll like and instantly launching a personal attack?
Women try it, and the guy is taking his wife along.
Taking his well trained 13 year old son as well, as part of a climbing family doesn’t seem unreasonable, remember that this does not have to be one of those “do or die” efforts, there is no reason to think that they will fall into a succeed at all costs trap like others have done.
It was scary, and his dad was guilty of child abuse, all in an attempt to get publicity for his struggling mountaineering company. He was willing to endanger his own son's life for money.
The best part was this: At the climax the kid allowed his Nepalese friend (actually an employee of his father) to summit first because he was super poor and the fame would pay for his sister's schooling, and keep them from having to become whores. That Nepalese boy, at 14, was the youngest person ever to reach the summit and live. His sisters did not become whores that I could tell, and the dad got dissed, so it was a happy ending.
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