peakbag Everest

[Neil]

Dying too young.

These 60-something dead on Everest are tragic due to the young age of the victims and the uselessness of the reason. I plan on remaining active and bushwhacking remote Maine peaks well into my nineties.

 

[cp2000]

Howdy!

Anyone have a clue as to how many miles its is round trip?

 

[post'r boy]

sum fakts.....

http://www.mnteverest.net/history.html
even more...
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Mount Everest

 

[Pig Pen]

Can you still drive to the trailhead?

 

[Tom Rankin]

Anyone have a clue as to how many miles its is round trip?

Well, from my house, about 20,000 miles!

 

[hikerfast]

age

my uncle Zan climbed mt kilimanjaro(19340) for the second time when he was 71. In the fall of 1983, at the age of 77, he went hut hopping up to 13000 feet in the austrian alps, prior to his triple bypass surgury coming up. that memorial day, two months after the surgery, he hiked into tuckermans to see the skiers. he didn't go up to the alpine garden like usual because, in his words 'i didn't want to overdo it'. i figure ill be the same way. hiking everest at 63 is ok in my book. however, that being said, these guided trips up everest are certainly killing people needlessly, young or old, male or female, sherpa or non sherpa.

 

[David Metsky]

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-dave-
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