Awesome! I met Kurt Diemberger at a slideshow he gave just a couple of years after the K2 disaster. He ended with an eloquent memorial to his climbing friends who perished, saying he and they were all doing what they loved.
Thanks for this thread, and the song!
I used to do climbs in the USA (Tetons etc.) but never sought to go to greater heights. I love the mountains but getting into thinner and thinner air just had no appeal to me, with or without oxygen supplements.