One can choose to live or simply exist...it is not for me or anyone else to say what a person chooses to do is “stupid” or not...you may say the same of me and what I choose to do and the risks I assume, but I’ll dismiss it, with prejudice.
RIP and condolences...
I say it’s stupid.
Climbing a mountain is not the difference between living and merely existing. That’s a false dichotomy.
But thanks for the philosophical lecture.