Posted on 07/25/2019 6:09:36 AM PDT by C19fan
Climbers have expressed fury at plans to install ladders on the summit of K2, the second highest mountain in the world which takes the lives of one in four climbers.
Mountaineers fear the peak is set to become a tourist destination if steps are installed making the dangerous peak too commercialised.
Imagine Nepal, a trekking and expedition agency, said that they want to return to the mountain next year with ladders, drills and bolts after being forced to abandon their ascent last week amid dangerous conditions.
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No ladders, no public monies for rescue efforts, and jail time for climbers who don’t bring their trash out.
I took a hike up the back side of Squaw Valley last year and back down. A real nose-scraper. Lots of rocks, lots of vertical. It was a pretty demanding hike.
Now, I’m a big guy. I didn’t have a hamburger in my hand, but I meet your description in other ways.
All the way down, almost every single person we passed on the way up took a look at me and said, out loud, “Well if that guy can do it, I can’t quit now!”
I was providing a real service to humanity! Motivation!
Just think, if you’d have climed Mt. Washington you’d have found some cars near the summit, and a choo-choo at the top.
Annapurna is even more dangerous than K2. Apparently, the whole mountain is a series of avalanches waiting to happen. None of the 8K meter peaks are something that a novice should attempt and attaching permanent ladders to a peak would only encourage those who have no business being up there.
We gonna need more Darwin Award trophies.
Heres the thing that Ive always been saying as a mountain biker- you have to earn your downhill!
If you get the free ride to the top do you not get the benefit from earning your way to the top and therefore our short changing not only your body but your soul of the true enjoyment of the downhill
for example in Mammoth Mountain in the Eastern Sierras I start at the bottom spend all day getting to the top and then spend about two hours riding down the mountain many people take the chairlift up and ride down several times but Im going to laugh at them because they have to pay $80 and wait in line and to me are just giant pussies
climed = climbed........DUH!
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