Posted on 05/23/2006 8:15:29 PM PDT by jbp1
It's either all the fault of the Jooooos, or Bush's fault.
If Bush were Jewish the universe would collapse on itself and space time would cease to exist! Again it would be the Jooooos and Bush's fault!
/s for the sarcasm impaired
Several years before he climbed to the sumit of Everest.
It takes a hell of a lot more oxygen to continue climbing that to go back down. In a case like this you abandon you climb, share your oxygen and back down.
The cost of climbing a mountain increases exponentially with altitude, especially above 23,000 ft.
Experienced mountaineers like Hillary can pretty much read into the background of a situation from a distance. Generally, they can make a correct call without actually having to be there in person because of experience.
A large part of why accidents happen on high mountains is due to ego. If you put your life savings in climbing Everest, your ego is invested in getting to the top. The problem is that a lot of people take too many chances, making for a lot of people up high who simply need to be rescued by the remainder who are actually competent. You are lucky if you climb a high mountain and don't run into this situation. Otherwise, take the $60K cost of preparing for an Everest climb and multiply it by two or more to account for the cost of rescuing others rather than proceeding to the top.
From an Everest site:
http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=2100
And another article on three Koreans who died, one covered in snow and left to die.
http://www.mounteverest.net/story/stories/AnoviceclimberstaleofEverestWecoveredhimupwithsnowandhejustwenttosleepJun152004.shtml
Ego over humanity.
No she's not.
She lied about that and never was called on it.
She was born some 8 years before Hillary ever climbed Mount Everest. Edmund Hillary was an unknown New Zealand beekeeper at the time.
Then she met him once, and spurted out her big lie - one of many more to come - and the Dems believed her.
The presstitutes won't touch this one.
Indeed, it is ego over humanity. It's the worship of Self.
Most likely not (12 hours) at 28,000 ft....see post 52 (Dead Zone.)
How much oxygen do you have? Can you get to the oxygen cache and how much oxygen will you use in the process? Has the cache gone empty or been robbed? And remember that you have to get yourself off the mountain. How's the weather--now. And what will it be like 3 hours from now? Are you part of the circus of people who shouldn't be on the mountain to start with? Sharp had two Everest summits under his belt and he got into trouble. And all of this assumes that you're thinking clearly, that prolonged exposure to extreme altitude hasn't affected your mental process--that you're not up against the wall of the 2-3 days that are survivable above 26,000'. It may be that the best you can do is hope to live to tell about it.
A couple of interesing, eye-opening books on what climbing Everest is really like (concerning what can and, all too often, does go wrong--May '96 climbing season disasters) are Into Thin Air-Jon Krakauer and The Climb-Anatoli Boukreev. If you read one, you must read the other.
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