[jettester]

You guessed it - it is entirely for the "experience" and nothing more. Let me prove my point. Say this announcement was made: "Mount Everest will now be closed until a decent rescue system is in place to keep this from happening again." I'd bet a 100 bucks that there are those climbing or contemplating climbing Everest who would say they would no longer do that if this scenario occurred because it "no longer would be the same thrill or as natural." People with money and the desire to push the envelope up against death - yeah, a dangerous and selfish crowd who are not getting a lot of sympathy for their callousness towards fellow mankind.

[eddie willers]

"Mount Everest will now be closed until a decent rescue system is in place to keep this from happening again."

There is not a technology on the face of this Earth that could have saved this man.

[Mr. Brightside]

Say this announcement was made: "Mount Everest will now be closed until a decent rescue system is in place to keep this from happening again." I'd bet a 100 bucks that there are those climbing or contemplating climbing Everest who would ...

laught at you? It is impossible, you know.