If you're looking for something to make you feel warm and sane, check out the Discovery Channel's Everest: Beyond the Limit series. It's a reality show for frozen bozo lovers. It follows a set of climbers who signed up with one of the best expedition leaders around, as they attempt to summit during the 2006 season among 600 other aspiring climbers. It's a bit melodramatic, and the narrator is annoying, but the story is gripping. From the Dane who tries to do it without oxygen, to the double amputee who lost his legs due to frostbite on New Zealand's Mt. Cook, to some more normal but equally driven types, it's an entertaining mixture of people. The sherpas are the real deal, I can tell you that. Find out what kind of pains and troubles $40K and two months of time will buy you if you've already proved your skills on other mountains. Better than that, find out why you won't be spending your money on it.
Now, thanks to M&D, on to The Boys of Everest for our upcoming snowboarding trip.
2 comments:
I've seen some of that show and it is griping. That kind of challenge always looks completely out of my league. I only have to think back to the last time I was really cold and multiply it by 100, or the last time I went coon hunting and my dogs went to the top of Massenutten Mt. and I made the trip to get them, I made it withiut a sherpa but I thought I was going to need oxygen, 2,400 feet and change. Base camp for them would probably be beyond my verticle limit.
Hey, my big accomplishment in the Alps at 12,500 feet was to climb the stairs to an upstairs restaurant. Base camp is something like 21,000 feet.
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