Posted on 05/24/2019 5:57:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin
‘It’s getting to be as dangerous as a cruise, where you normally lose, what, 30 or 40?’
Most of those who check out on a cruise would have checked out if they were watching Tiger Woods for the 50th time in their living room. They’re quietly thrown in the freezer and dumped off at the next port.
I’m with you. Once you have kids, GROW UP, or don’t bother having them. Similar, although not quite as much, if you have a wife, or living parents, or siblings, depending on how close. My parents told me to NEVER rent a car in a country like the UK, where they drive on the wrong side of the road - two of their close friends are dead due to that. I can wait - and find other options in the mean time.
Actually the Southest Ridge is the most dangerous. But the Northeast Ridge is generally considered slightly harder than the South Col.
I rented a car in the UK, and my mom was one of the passengers. We lived.
Exactly.
Climbing this mountain, however, I never got the sense of accomplishment. It wasn't glory they received, it was almost relief for those who returned in one piece. Even then, they lived knowing their party left behind people who didn't, or couldn't make it back. No joy, no accomplishment. Just numbness and depression.
They can work on building the lift while they’re waiting.
‘I rented a car in the UK, and my mom was one of the passengers. We lived.’
Rare.
They threw their lives away for nothing. Fools. Their families will suffer for their hubris.
‘My burial post was a take on why do they climb Everest “because it’s there”’
My headstone is going to read ‘I wish I spent time at the office’. I figure people will get a bit uplifted when they walk by it [and trust me, no one in my family thinks that I spent too much time at the office - I was always there for them].
Cheaper to fly to L.A. and take the 405 south to LAX from the 101 if you want that great waiting experience.
The claim of *He died doing what he loved* makes it sound like it was a noble, heroic death, or that he’s some kind of martyr.
Fact is, he died doing something that he didn’t need to do and now how he died isn’t an issue and I doubt God is impressed with it when he faces God for judgment.
Rented a bicycle when I was over there - not a car. The only problem was ending up on the wrong side from roundabouts and I think it was left turns.
Sounds like the "Californians" skit on SNL, on e of the very few funny things they have done over the past years, of course they needed to cut it.
It seems to me that the best way to do body, and garbage, recovery from Everest would be to use a helicopter drone, which could drop off a partially inflated helium balloon and a gas cylinder to fill it the rest of the way.
No way! Hope I don’t die doing what I enjoy! Think I’ll just stay in bed until I expire, said no one...
*He died doing what he loved* …losing his fingers , toes and nose to frostbite
Easy solution
Train harder.
Summit in winter
Only about half a dozen have summited in winter in history
One without oxygen
Practice on Denali or McKinley to my generation
I think sixteen have made it
Half of those expeditions suffered fatalities
The Californians is hilarious because it is SO DAMN TRUE. You can’t have a gathering on some evening anywhere in SoCal and not hear people talking about the way they chose to get there, and the traffic.
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