Climbing Mt Everest is for idiots!

If no-one did anything because it has already been done then nobody would do anything.

Personal achievement is an interesting concept OP.

The stairs in my house are my Everest.

I really should follow suit and remove the bodies scattered along them.

Its called Summit Fever

You have to go through a lot of pain and suffering to get to the point where that girl was walking over dead bodies, and quite frankly I can understand it.

Also, @ 28,000 feet, you've barely enough energy to move yourself, let alone dragging someone else's dead a$$ down the mountain...

D'ya think anybody has taking a shyte off the top of the summit?

thewing wrote: »

Its called Summit Fever

You have to go through a lot of pain and suffering to get to the point where that girl was walking over dead bodies, and quite frankly I can understand it.

Also, @ 28,000 feet, you've barely enough energy to move yourself, let alone dragging someone else's dead a$$ down the mountain...

People that are still alive are regularly ignored by other climbers too.

New Zealand double-amputee climber Mark Inglis revealed in an interview on 23 May 2006 that he thought that Sharp had died, and that he had been passed by 40 other climbers heading for the summit who made no attempt at a rescue.

Sir Edmund Hillary was highly critical of the decision not to try to rescue Sharp, saying that leaving other climbers to die is unacceptable, and the desire to get to the summit has become all-important. He also said, "I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. It was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say good morning and pass on by". He also told the New Zealand Herald that he was horrified by the callous attitude of today’s climbers. "They don’t give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn’t impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sharp_%28mountaineer%29

mikemac1 wrote: »

Real men and women climb Croagh Patrick barefoot :cool:

Na I go 'up the road' for a pint most Saturday and by the time I get there I am almost crawling, dizzy and gasping with a 'goo' for an ould pint, that's a real journey

Very few people will understand the mentality.
They do it to feel alive, achievement, power, self pride, throwing off the mundanity of life.
I recently trained for and completed a 100k cycle. I wouldn't consider it a big achievement at all on a grand scale, I've already got my sights set on more, but as a personal challenge it was massive and I'm still getting a buzz from having done it.

People that say 'you're mental' simply don't understand the euphoria that comes from something like that. It feels so good it's scary sometimes.

(I'm fully aware of how crazy that sounds, but it's true )

FatherLen wrote: »

yeah, the matterhorn is where it's at.

Don't you mean the Murderhorn?
http://www.genericinternetcritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/vlcsnap-3068667.png

FatherLen wrote: »

yeah, the matterhorn is where it's at.

Suas11 wrote: »

Don't you mean the Murderhorn?

Prefer me ould pisshorn tbh

smash wrote: »

I really don't see how it's in any way selfish...

Read the link I posted at the bottom of page 1