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StevenBauer
05-11-2006, 11:21 PM
A friend of a friend is on Everest. He and a buddy are climbing from the Chinese side. They are not part of a group, they are doing it just the two of them. No Sherpas. One summited this morning, the other almost. Nice going.
Lots of info at Everest News:

www.everestnews.com (http://www.woodenboat-ubb.com/vbulletin/upload/www.everestnews.com)
Concordia...41
05-12-2006, 04:28 AM
What? Like it isn't cold enough in Maine???? :p

Sorry - couldn't resist....
Chris Coose
05-12-2006, 06:13 AM
The air is thinner up here too.
causes liberalism and other crazy activities.

Congrats to those guys. Mountaineering books are my favorite pleasure pastime. It's a big deal.
Victor
05-12-2006, 04:12 PM
Not to belittle their achievement, but isn't the TIBETAN side a much easier climb?
Chris Coose
05-12-2006, 04:33 PM
"easier"
Not certain that word fits, even used relatively.
StevenBauer
05-12-2006, 05:09 PM
How about trying it and getting back to us. If you survive.

Steven
Stu Fyfe
05-12-2006, 07:56 PM
"As Maines goes, so goes the nation". Or something like that.
Hughman
05-12-2006, 09:49 PM
Fatality rate on Everest climbs have run about 1 in 10 historically, not to mention disabilities related to edema, frostbite, injury, etc.

We do it because it's there.....(George Mallory, whose body was found in 1999)
http://classic.mountainzone.com/everest/99/north/disp5-3conrad.html (http://classic.mountainzone.com/everest/99/north/disp5-3conrad.html)
emichaels
05-14-2006, 05:35 PM
What? Like it isn't cold enough in Maine???? :p

Sorry - couldn't resist....


Its not cold in Maine..........between July 10-20th, that is.....
Zane Lewis
05-18-2006, 04:06 PM
Just a point of note.
A Kiwi double amputee summited Everist earlier this week.

Some 10 years or more back he lost both lower legs to frost bite climbing in NZ. After that be first got into Cycling and then he started to develop artificial legs to go climbing again. Last year he had a go at our highest peak and this year Everist.. The question for Him I guess is what's next.

Zane