Climbing Everest? Don't Forget to Dress for Dinner

[conjur]

http://news.excite.com/odd/article/id/290898|oddlyenough|05-12-2004::11:25|reuters.html

May 12, 11:17 am ET

HUDDERSFIELD, England (Reuters) - Seven men who enjoyed duck and caviar at more than 22,000 feet in the Himalayas pitched a claim for the record highest altitude formal dinner.

One Australian and six British men made it to the top of the 23,113-feet Tibetan peak Lhakpa Ri near Mount Everest carrying tables, chairs and white tie dinner suits earlier this month. Gales forced them back to 22,326 feet for the sumptuous meal.

"Great party," team leader Henry Shelford said Tuesday by telephone after returning to Britain. "Shame about the atmosphere."

The month-long expedition raised more than $44,000 for the British Lung Foundation for research into the lung disease sarcoidosis, from which Shelford has suffered.

The Guinness World Records said it was verifying the claim that the team, who did not have previous mountaineering experience, had broken the previous record of 22,204 feet for the highest formal dinner, set by Australian climbers in 1989.

Scotsman Robbie Aitken wore a kilt -- but he broke with the tradition of wearing nothing underneath. "He was not a true Scot, otherwise he would not have come back in one piece," Shelford told Reuters.

"record highest altitude formal dinner" ???

 

[Schadenfroh]

time to launch a rocket to the moon and have some filet magnion to beet the record, lets ask carmack to build us a rocket

 

[AcidicFury]

lol thats awesome

 

[TitanDiddly]

So, is Guinness just accepting categories for *anything*???

Yes.

 

[ElFenix]

wtf mate

 

[conjur]

I wonder if we could submit the "Movie Trivia" thread as longest internet forum thread?