Posted on 06/08/2022 6:04:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
You win the thread!
Reinhold Messner, probably the greatest mountain climber who ever lived, only has three toes left. Frostbite in the Himalayas claimed the rest (and it didn’t slow his climbing in the least).
Ranulph Fiennes, legendary arctic explorer, and who also summited Everest at age 65, self-amputated the tips of all the fingers on one hand because frostbite had rendered them necrotic but his doctor wouldn’t perform the medical amputation on Sir Ranulph’s timetable.
If it weren’t for the thrill of the risk they’re taking, people like this wouldn’t do these things.
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