Foo - Anyone here summited Everest?

It's one of my life goals. I'm not a climber, yet. What was your experience like? They're showing season 2 of Everest on Discovery, and now I can't go to sleep. I want to be up there.

Teaser:

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/6265/everestsummitscan0003rz9.jpg

:roflmao: Waterrockets mt. everest submit story in 5,4,3,2,1.......:D.

Read "Into Thin Air"

That's one of my life's goals too, I watched the first season, and have been watching the 2nd season.

That's one of my life's goals too, I watched the first season, and have been watching the 2nd season.

Hey Pheard, let's summit Everest with our bikes, then ride them down.

Yeah...I summited Everest.

http://www.televisionando.it/wp-galleryo/born-survivors/bear_grylls_locandina.jpg

Hey Pheard, let's summit Everest with our bikes, then ride them down.

That's impossible. But ok!

Read "Into Thin Air"

+1. Especially that Swede who biked to Everest with his gear, climbed it solo (I think w/o 02) and then biked back home. There's a challege for you guys.

Hey permanentjaun and Jon--Why is it one of your lifes' goals? And the "because it's there" thing doesn't count.

Hey permanentjaun and Jon--Why is it one of your lifes' goals? And the "because it's there" thing doesn't count.

It's like the pinnacle of accomplishment in this lifetime, the highest point on earth. There is nothing more satisfying in my mind, on this earthly realm than summiting the highest mountain on earth. Look at people who in our minds are "fit". Basketball players, football players, marathon runners, whomever. None of these people are necessarily fit enough to summit everest. It takes more than 7% body fat, a good time in the 100m dash, it takes mental toughness, power of will, so much more than just being physically fit. In my mind, the pinnacle of my life would be to summit Everest. I've climbed to the top of mountains, and done long thousands of elevation hikes. I want EVEREST!

It's like the pinnacle of accomplishment in this lifetime, the highest point on earth. There is nothing more satisfying in my mind, on this earthly realm than summiting the highest mountain on earth. Look at people who in our minds are "fit". Basketball players, football players, marathon runners, whomever. None of these people are necessarily fit enough to summit everest. It takes more than 7% body fat, a good time in the 100m dash, it takes mental toughness, power of will, so much more than just being physically fit. In my mind, the pinnacle of my life would be to summit Everest. I've climbed to the top of mountains, and done long thousands of elevation hikes. I want EVEREST!

Cripes, sounds like marriage. Are you sure you want it?

Cripes, sounds like marriage. Are you sure you want it?

Marriage means bebes! I want bebes!

Pheard, I don't know how to break this to you, but marriage alone does not produce bebes. Nor is it even necesarry in their production.

Doolally - now you gone and done it - we were trying to keep away from him the knowledge of the birds and the bees... :rolleyes:

Pheard, I don't know how to break this to you, but marriage alone does not produce bebes. Nor is it even necesarry in their production.

Some people have certain moral restrictions.

Well, at least now we know why Pheard's "lovin" hasn't resulted in any weight-losing energy expenditure.


Some people have certain moral restrictions.

In my high school, these moral folk were usually the pregnant ones or their boyfriends.

God bless condoms.

What was this thread about, again?

Good luck is all I have to say. This will take YEARS of training. I just started bouldering(climbing) and it is intense. This is without Ice and a multiple day climb and lack of O2. I would be all for it if I had the time to train. You basically would have to put your normal life on hold to train for years. Meaning you would have to save money.

Intense is an understatement.

Good luck is all I have to say. This will take YEARS of training. I just started bouldering(climbing) and it is intense. This is without Ice and a multiple day climb and lack of O2. I would be all for it if I had the time to train. You basically would have to put your normal life on hold to train for years. Meaning you would have to save money.

Intense is an understatement.
Not to mention the 40k pricetag of summiting Everest. :eek:

I jumped over Everest. No big.

I think I'll wait a few millinea...should be much more manageble climb then.

Some people have certain moral restrictions.


I work with a guy who is about 35 years old. He is saving himself for the perfect virgin. He is a good looking guy. And he can`t keep a girl longer than 3 months. Eventually the girls loose interest and look for someone that can add more to the relationship. Don`t shoot the messenger.

Not to mention the 40k pricetag of summiting Everest. :eek:

For you, special price: $20K . However, you will need to return your gear, snowsuit, ice ax, crampons, and oxygen to our summit kiosk.

Have a nice trip down down the mountain.

However, you will need to return your gear, snowsuit, ice ax, cramponsWhy would you want used tam--oh, crampons.

Why would you want used tam--oh, crampons.

Actually, should the usages of the words "crampons" and "tampons" be reversed? Think about it.

At the very least, "tampons" should be "tampins."

Too bad you all don't have a women's forum to sort out these questions.

Think about it.No.

No.

Tsk tsk. So much needless unthinking negativity.

I wanna do it too. I have been reading every Everest book I can get my hands on and its fascinating. I wanna start off this winter by climbing something low key around here.

I wanna do it too. I have been reading every Everest book I can get my hands on and its fascinating. I wanna start off this winter by climbing something low key around here.

Beacon Hill? Bring extra oxygen.

Beacon Hill? Bring extra oxygen.

:lol: I was thinking more along the line of Mt.Washington.

If I had 100K to spend I would try it in a heart beat.

I work 40hr a week so I would need to take off a year to train and make a few smaller climbs. I would need to get use to the gear and training for these types of climbs is something you don’t do on the weekend.

:lol: I was thinking more along the line of Mt.Washington.

This is from SSFG


nice! (and it looks so warm!!)


this was my Mt. Washington moment:

http://nathaniel.typepad.com/photos/mt_washington/img_0063.JPG

Read "Into Thin Air"

Krakauer's book was supposed to be an expose of how commercialized Everest had become by the mid 90s, how companies would take money from any noob and then leave them on the mountain to die tragically. But the irony is that this book has mythologized Everest, fueling the commercialism rather than diminishing it. Office jockeys with no climbing or mountaineering experience beyond their subscription to Outside Magazine read it and think that they will be the exception.

This is from SSFG

No Doubt it cold! Mt.Washington has the worst weather in North America. My plan is to start off with something minor and hopefully by the end of the season, climb Mt.Wash. I also need to buy climbing gear etc and its quote a bit of fixed costs, which makes me balk. I already have too many hobbies that cost too much money. This is all still nascent, as in thoughts over the past 2 months. Haven't made any solid steps towards fulfilling any goals.

Krakauer's book was supposed to be an expose of how commercialized Everest had become by the mid 90s, how companies would take money from any noob and then leave them on the mountain to die tragically. But the irony is that this book has mythologized Everest, fueling the commercialism rather than diminishing it. Office jockeys with no climbing or mountaineering experience beyond their subscription to Outside Magazine read it and think that they will be the exception.

A couple people have noted towards this. I will say that I do not think it is an easy thing to do, BUT I don't think it takes years of work getting there. That is, it also depends on the person. Many of the characters on the discovery channel show are fairly disadvantaged. I saw last night one man was 71. Tim is 6'5" and big which makes him a very poor high altitude climber. Mogens has asthma and almost made it to the top without O2.

I'm only 23 with no medical conditions. I've been fit all my life. My new 8 month cycling hobby is putting me in better shape after every ride. As far as physical fitness I don't think there is much more I would be able to do to prepare myself for a climb like everest. I would obviously still work out as much as I can until I left for the climb. One question I have is if you actually don't want to go there in peak shape and less than 7% fat. You need that fat since your body eats it away at such drastic paces when you're on the mountain. I'd be afraid of losing all energy I had if I went there without bulking up a little first.

As far as technical experience there is only so much you can prepare yourself. With a concentrated effort you could probably train yourself in weeks/months, not years. There is only so much gear you can take which you need to acquaint yourself with. Everest is also not the most technical climb. I've heard K2 is. Everest is only the highest.

With that said, I again think a concentrated effort of several weeks/months should prepare one technically for the climb. A concentrated effort to me would mean either every day, all day of every weekend or up to 4-5 days a week with a private instructor. If you can afford to stop working for the 2-3 months it takes to climb everest and also the 40-100K cost then you can afford to pay for an instructor before hand. Not to rely too much on the sherpas, but they are there to help.

That all sounds ignorant, but I don't think years of training are needed. If you're 6'0' 290 lbs then that's a different story.

My argument is all thrown to hell if you intend on doing it without O2. I'd rather insure a summit than risk the dangers of no O2. It is a big enough feat as it is. +I guess people that don't canoe across the pacific are making it too easy on themselves right?+

Hey permanentjaun and Jon--Why is it one of your lifes' goals? And the "because it's there" thing doesn't count.

For me it's just another goal. I like to push myself and see what I can do. Now that I'm out of college I don't know what to do with myself. I don't see the point in living a life where you go to work 5 days a week and are happy with 2-3 weeks vacation. It gets old. What is life at that point? I'm not a hippy, but at that point it is working for a machine. The company will be there long after you've died. It doesn't need you. I don't understand devoting such large sums of time to something that isn't me. I do work a full time job, but I'm not giving up on being more. Once I build up a good bankroll I'll get back into investing so hopefully one day I'm working for myself and can take on life experiences like Everest with no hesitations.

The life I want to live is one where I actually get to see the world and do amazing things. Everest is one of those things. Besides, check out the views from the top! How awesome is that?

Future goals if you're interested:
1. Get back into drumming
2. Race in the Baja 1000 in the solo motorcycle division
3. Break the speed of sound in a fighter jet, and then go to extreme altitudes in said jet.
4. Break 200 mph and 300 mph in a car. Perhaps in the same run?
5. Learn to weld to:
A - Design and build my own truck
B - Get into metal sculpting
6. Move to a foreign country and live there long enough to learn a new language. Then move on. Germany is my hot spot right now.
7. Run with the bulls
8. Train for the olympics in one of the more obscure events to hopefully participate in the olympics.
9. Donate kidney and perhaps some of my liver.

I have some more, but can't think of em right now.

For me it's just another goal. I like to push myself and see what I can do. Now that I'm out of college I don't know what to do with myself. I don't see the point in living a life where you go to work 5 days a week and are happy with 2-3 weeks vacation. It gets old. What is life at that point? I'm not a hippy, but at that point it is working for a machine. The company will be there long after you've died. It doesn't need you. I don't understand devoting such large sums of time to something that isn't me. I do work a full time job, but I'm not giving up on being more. Once I build up a good bankroll I'll get back into investing so hopefully one day I'm working for myself and can take on life experiences like Everest with no hesitations.

The life I want to live is one where I actually get to see the world and do amazing things. Everest is one of those things. Besides, check out the views from the top! How awesome is that?

Future goals if you're interested:
1. Get back into drumming
2. Race in the Baja 1000 in the solo motorcycle division
3. Break the speed of sound in a fighter jet, and then go to extreme altitudes in said jet.
4. Break 200 mph and 300 mph in a car. Perhaps in the same run?
5. Learn to weld to:
A - Design and build my own truck
B - Get into metal sculpting
6. Move to a foreign country and live there long enough to learn a new language. Then move on. Germany is my hot spot right now.
7. Run with the bulls
8. Train for the olympics in one of the more obscure events to hopefully participate in the olympics.
9. Donate kidney and perhaps some of my liver.

I have some more, but can't think of em right now.

Wild child.

As far as technical experience there is only so much you can prepare yourself. With a concentrated effort you could probably train yourself in weeks/months, not years.

That all sounds ignorant, but I don't think years of training are needed.

No, not ignorant, just naive and suffering from the "above average" bias. There's no shortcut to experience.

Not Everest, but I summited Denali in 1997.

<pouts>

hell I get the shivers at the base of a nasty hill to ride up - and then sometimes I do a "I crrrrrrushy you heads" to the front riders making their way up it. SQUISHY SQUISHY!!

hehe, s'ok - people think I'm a nut anyway!

:)

I'll never tell them hehe,


wonder if someone does it to me, hmmmm ;)

Everest has become a zoo. It's littered to the point where the envirronment is degraded. With modern equipment it's not that big a deal. Oh it's dangerous enough, it's just not a challenge, it's a slog. It's not like you have to spend several years learning technical climbing skills.

It's just big.

Does Martha Everest count?;):D

Does Martha Everest count?;):D


Only if you were on top:D

Oh Yeah baby! Who's your Sir Edmund?:D

Does that answer your question!;)

It's like the pinnacle of accomplishment in this lifetime, the highest point on earth. There is nothing more satisfying in my mind, on this earthly realm than summiting the highest mountain on earth. Look at people who in our minds are "fit". Basketball players, football players, marathon runners, whomever. None of these people are necessarily fit enough to summit everest. It takes more than 7% body fat, a good time in the 100m dash, it takes mental toughness, power of will, so much more than just being physically fit. In my mind, the pinnacle of my life would be to summit Everest. I've climbed to the top of mountains, and done long thousands of elevation hikes. I want EVEREST!

The biggest mountain on earth is underwater. I'm not joking, google it.

As for wanting to summit everest, no thanks. I'll helishuttle up to the top and ride down.

Everest is for Wussy.

shouldn't be a problem to do in a few years

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xGKo_4d8uao

Actually, I want to go the other direction and free dive the Marianas Trench

Yeah...I summited Everest.

http://www.televisionando.it/wp-galleryo/born-survivors/bear_grylls_locandina.jpg

They have a Holiday Inn on Everest? Cool.

It's like the pinnacle of accomplishment in this lifetime, the highest point on earth. There is nothing more satisfying in my mind, on this earthly realm than summiting the highest mountain on earth. Look at people who in our minds are "fit". Basketball players, football players, marathon runners, whomever. None of these people are necessarily fit enough to summit everest. It takes more than 7% body fat, a good time in the 100m dash, it takes mental toughness, power of will, so much more than just being physically fit. In my mind, the pinnacle of my life would be to summit Everest. I've climbed to the top of mountains, and done long thousands of elevation hikes. I want EVEREST!

What it takes is the right physique. Look at sherpas. They are small, thin, wiry. They would get killed in the NFL, but they could kill an NFL player on the mountain side. just sayin'