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The climb is doable as it comes with lots of professional support. I'm good with their choice, however tragic the outcome.
But, as a flat-lander living at 1k feet, I would want much more than the month they used to acclimate. However, I'm speaking as someone who found a steep hike up an 8k+ foot mountain in the Canadian Rockies to be very tough (and I was the only one in my party of three fairly fit under-20 year olds to make it to the top). You Coloradans can laugh at that! This past October we drove up to some touristy hot springs at 14k+ feet in a valley at the foot of a perfectly conical volcano whose peak was another 4k feet higher (in Chile). The 'reasonable' slope to the summit would have tempted me greatly had I been 40 years younger; what's 4k feet… yet even at 25, I doubt I would have even made it 1000 feet, if that. We did walk 150 feet up a steep slope and that was tough enough for my 65 year old cardiopulmonary system. Elevation is a killer yet we were not half the almost, to me, unimaginable elevation of Everest. Note that one 20 year old in our party did suffer from probable altitude sickness and required a visit to an emergency room (located in a town at 8k+ feet) for oxygen. We were coming from months at sea level and the next day we were at elevation.
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hal wrote:
Don't read the tabloid article on dailymail - here's a real news article about story: http://www.smh.com.au/national/mount-eve...p0t3p.html
This is not a story about veganism.
Actually, she made it a story about veganism:
"It seems that people have this warped idea of vegans being malnourished and weak," Dr Strydom said in March. "By climbing the seven summits we want to prove that vegans can do anything and more."
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'It seems that people have this warped idea of vegans being malnourished and weak.
What people? I've never heard nor thought that...
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Total non-squitar.
Im a vegan, and a great juggler, being vegan has never held me back.
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The article didn't mention any children/dependents so if the couple wanted to blow $30,000 each to climb a mountain go for it. It's your life do what you want.
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A tragedy, but Everest claims her due from those who challenge her. Altitude sickness is a reality, and her (and her husband's) apparent illness before they attempted the summit should have been enough of a red flag to stop their attempt. Sometimes the spirit is willing but the flesh cannot go further.
Requiescat in Pacem.
