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How to Climb Everest

I would love to be able to do that one day, however I have never done any extreme mountain climbing. Hell now I don't even like running on the treadmill for more than five minutes.
 
Originally posted by: Babbles
I would love to be able to do that one day, however I have never done any extreme mountain climbing. Hell now I don't even like running on the treadmill for more than five minutes.
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I've done a tiny bit of regular mountain climbing, and I fell in love it with it. I would really love to be able to do this some day. I can certainly get fit enough to do it within a year, but the expertise would need many years, and worse it costs A LOT - 65k.
 
it takes 7 weeks to climb Everest? Holy crap!

"Of approximately seven weeks spent on the mountain, only about 21 days are taken up with climbing. The rest are given over to acclimatisation and rest days"

Wow, I thought it was maybe a weeklong endeavor at most. Maybe I don't want to do this after all 🙂
 
Sunburn: A real hazard on Everest. The sun's reflection, coupled with excess time spent panting for oxygen, means that a sunburnt roof of the mouth is common. It makes eating almost impossible. Sunburn of the nostrils also occurs.
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:Q
 
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Not to mention the brains of a gnat.
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Sir Edmund Hillary had the brains of a gnat?
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On his keychain.
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It's a lot easier to climb Everest now, then when Sir Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did it.
 
Originally posted by: Bootprint
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Not to mention the brains of a gnat.
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Sir Edmund Hillary had the brains of a gnat?
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On his keychain.
😉

It's a lot easier to climb Everest now, then when Sir Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did it.
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True. But it's still a huge endeavor.

I was watching the IMAX DVD on Everest the other day. That extended interview with Beck Weathers amazes me everytime.
 
How to Climb Everest:
1. Be a Sherpa.

I love climbing, but I'm not a sadist. I would never bother with something like Everest.
 
Originally posted by: conjur
Just don't ask Jon Krakauer. 😕
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Why not? I thought Into Thin Air was a great book... 😕

just have a LOLcopter drop u off as high as possible and climb the rest of the way up.
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Still over 10,000 feet to the summit from where a helicopter can fly.
 
Originally posted by: dighn
Above 8,000m your mental acuity drops to 30 per cent of normal levels. Basic arithmetic (crucial when negotiating the oxygen flow rate) becomes virtually impossible.
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wow...
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There must be a lot of ATOTers posting from there.

 
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Not to mention the brains of a gnat.
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Sir Edmund Hillary had the brains of a gnat?
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I base that opinion on some of the failed expeditions where people with families and even children died on the mountain. Tell me that they had anything but their own selfish pursuits in mind when they decided to risk their lives and leave behind families and children who love them. Yeah, brains of a gnat. The lot of them.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for Sir Edmund Hillary and for what the other pioneers have accomplished but there are some things, like climbing Everest, that I don't think people with children should have any business doing.

My .02
 
Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Originally posted by: conjur
Just don't ask Jon Krakauer. 😕
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Why not? I thought Into Thin Air was a great book... 😕
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Read Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest from Anatoli Bookreev.

just have a LOLcopter drop u off as high as possible and climb the rest of the way up.
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Still over 10,000 feet to the summit from where a helicopter can fly.
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Well...9,000 😉 Remember, Beck Weathers and Makalu Gau were rescued at about 20,000 feet (Camp I).
 
I was actually just watching Vertical Limit on TV the other day (never seen it before). About some climbers that are going up some mountain and get stuck and they have to go through the whole rationing thing while they wait to get resuced. Had Chris O'Donnel in it and I think Billy Bob but I don't remember who else. Was a neat movie.
 
I attempted Mnt Elbrus (5700m) in Russia last summer. Developed AMS on an altitude of 5000m and got in serious trouble REALLY fast. I basically crawled back to base camp. I still have scars on my hands from the ice.


You have to be a bit crazy to do Everest and a nutcase if you do it without oxygen

 
Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
I was actually just watching Vertical Limit on TV the other day (never seen it before). About some climbers that are going up some mountain and get stuck and they have to go through the whole rationing thing while they wait to get resuced. Had Chris O'Donnel in it and I think Billy Bob but I don't remember who else. Was a neat movie.
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Yeah, you can find some decent bits of climbing in some movies like that (I think it had Scott Glenn, too) or even that one with Stallone...or K-2.
 
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