How to Climb Everest

[Gravity]

I'd love to have the time and money to do this. I'm in shape to where I could prep and climb in the next 6 months. I'll need about $45,000 to get it done.

Anyone want to sponsor me?

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Kalvin00

Originally posted by: conjur
Just don't ask Jon Krakauer. 😕

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.

Still over 10,000 feet to the summit from where a helicopter can fly.

Helicopters can't even reach base camp.

Viper GTS

 

[freegeeks]

Originally posted by: conjur

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.

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.

Touching The Void ,by far the best climbing movie ever

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Kalvin00

Originally posted by: conjur
Just don't ask Jon Krakauer. 😕

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.

Still over 10,000 feet to the summit from where a helicopter can fly.

Helicopters can't even reach base camp.

Viper GTS

<ahem>

Helicopter Rescue at 20,012 Feet
http://www.inventor-warp-speed.../helicopter_rescue.htm

Colonel Madan rescues Beck Weathers and Makalu Gau at Camp I
http://www.everestfilm.com/bigframe.html

Makalu Gau of Taiwan and American Dr. Seaborn "Beck" Weathers were severely frost-bitten and in need of rescue from Camp IV. The expedition teams at Camp II and III mobilized. Viesturs and Schauer climbed to 25,000 feet, where they led Weathers down, step by step. Viesturs held him from falling as Schauer placed his feet on the icy slope. Sherpas assisted Gau in the same manner. At Camp III, Breashears joined them, leading Weathers down a 2,500 foot vertical drop. Though the Everest Film team had video gear with them, they devoted their full efforts to the rescue.

When the Everest Film team reached Camp I with Gau and Weathers, they faced an impasse: the perilous Khumbu Icefall, a jumble of ice blocks the size of buildings that can shift without warning. Many have died in the Icefall, falling into the deep crevasses and getting trapped by the moving glacier. To get Weathers and Gau to Base Camp, Viesturs reflected, "It would take a day and a night and place many people at risk." Prayers were answered when a brave helicopter pilot flew from Kathmandu to Camp I in what may have been the highest helicopter rescue in history.

Of course, the same pilot didn't quite make it on another attempt:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/e...atches/news970521.html

 

[freegeeks]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Kalvin00

Originally posted by: conjur
Just don't ask Jon Krakauer. 😕

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.

Still over 10,000 feet to the summit from where a helicopter can fly.

Helicopters can't even reach base camp.

Viper GTS

yes they can,

there have been helicopter rescues on Mnt Everest at altitudes reaching almost to camp 1 if I recall

EDIT: Conjur beat me

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Kalvin00

Originally posted by: conjur
Just don't ask Jon Krakauer. 😕

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.

Still over 10,000 feet to the summit from where a helicopter can fly.

Helicopters can't even reach base camp.

Viper GTS

<ahem>

Helicopter Rescue at 20,012 Feet
http://www.inventor-warp-speed.../helicopter_rescue.htm

Colonel Madan rescues Beck Weathers and Makalu Gau at Camp I
http://www.everestfilm.com/bigframe.html

Makalu Gau of Taiwan and American Dr. Seaborn "Beck" Weathers were severely frost-bitten and in need of rescue from Camp IV. The expedition teams at Camp II and III mobilized. Viesturs and Schauer climbed to 25,000 feet, where they led Weathers down, step by step. Viesturs held him from falling as Schauer placed his feet on the icy slope. Sherpas assisted Gau in the same manner. At Camp III, Breashears joined them, leading Weathers down a 2,500 foot vertical drop. Though the Everest Film team had video gear with them, they devoted their full efforts to the rescue.

When the Everest Film team reached Camp I with Gau and Weathers, they faced an impasse: the perilous Khumbu Icefall, a jumble of ice blocks the size of buildings that can shift without warning. Many have died in the Icefall, falling into the deep crevasses and getting trapped by the moving glacier. To get Weathers and Gau to Base Camp, Viesturs reflected, "It would take a day and a night and place many people at risk." Prayers were answered when a brave helicopter pilot flew from Kathmandu to Camp I in what may have been the highest helicopter rescue in history.

Of course, the same pilot didn't quite make it on another attempt:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/e...atches/news970521.html

I stand corrected, I was told by a certain banned helicopter pilot that most topped out around 14K feet. Some apparently can go that high.

Viper GTS

 

[freegeeks]

Originally posted by: Gravity
I'd love to have the time and money to do this. I'm in shape to where I could prep and climb in the next 6 months. I'll need about $45,000 to get it done.

Anyone want to sponsor me?

do you have climbing experience??

 

[Aharami]

woah thats crazy. i knew it was hard...but had no idea about all these.

on another note. i heard that the world's second highest mountain - K2 - is MUCH harder to climb than Everest. The climb is a lot harder and lot more people have died trying to climb K2 than Everest

 

[ZeroEffect]

If you want to know why climbing Mt. Everest is a bit foolhardy, read
Into Thin Air. Krakauer details a climb that goes terribly wrong. Then
he reflects on why and how. Great read!

People who have no business attempting such a climb are being facilitated.
That's how you make your money in the climbing business.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: ZeroEffect
If you want to know why climbing Mt. Everest is a bit foolhardy, read
Into Thin Air. Krakauer details a climb that goes terribly wrong. Then
he reflects on why and how. Great read!

People who have no business attempting such a climb are being facilitated.
That's how you make your money in the climbing business.

Better yet, read Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest from Anatoli Bookreev.

Seems Krakauer tried to pin some blame on others, undeservedly.

But, in general, yeah. The climbing companies were scooting people up the mountain who had the right checkbooks, despite any lack of skills.