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Everest...the death zone

Started by Mugwump, December 24, 2017, 06:08:00 PM

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Mugwump

December 24, 2017, 06:08:00 PM

Deliverance From 27,000 Feet
By John Branch dec. 19, 2017


https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/18/sports/everest-deaths.html
Jon

?Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ?Wow! What a Ride!? ~ Hunter S. Thompson

Rjb3

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December 24, 2017, 09:12:47 PM
I've often wondered what compelles them to climb that mountain. Mallory said "Because it was there".

BallAquatics

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December 25, 2017, 12:02:42 AM
Well, George, we knocked the bastard off.
— Edmund Hillary, first words to lifelong friend George Lowe on returning from Everest's summit

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