Climb Every Mountain...
Jun. 5th, 2021 08:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingman... All together now... 'ford every stream...'
Or at least, climb the 14 highest mountains across the globe, including Antarctica...
Or possibly... don't!!
As the article says, it's an incredible achievement to get anywhere near the top of all those mountains & can sometimes be tricky to say whether you're at the top or not. I know if I met someone who said they made it to within 5 metres of the top of any mountain over 8,000 metres high, I'd be pretty impressed anyway, whether they got to the top or not - that's still better than anything I could do... I can get winded climbing a steep garden path, as happened last week (To be fair, it was a very steep path up more than 100 stairs - I counted them!!... And I had a cold...)
These days you hear a lot of people say they've been to Mt Everest Base Camp & sound like they're quite content with that - as they should be, it's still a great thing to have done & at least you get to come back from there alive, which is not so certain if you keep going up...
There is even some doubt about Edmund Hilary's claim to have been the first to climb Everest, as the early 20th century climber George Mallory's body was found up there, at a point which suggests he might have got to the top before dying. Certainly Mr Hilary & the redoubtable Tensing Norgay were the first to get back down alive... I'm in the camp of those who think Tensing Norgay got there first, but Edmund didn't take his photo
Or at least, climb the 14 highest mountains across the globe, including Antarctica...
Or possibly... don't!!
As the article says, it's an incredible achievement to get anywhere near the top of all those mountains & can sometimes be tricky to say whether you're at the top or not. I know if I met someone who said they made it to within 5 metres of the top of any mountain over 8,000 metres high, I'd be pretty impressed anyway, whether they got to the top or not - that's still better than anything I could do... I can get winded climbing a steep garden path, as happened last week (To be fair, it was a very steep path up more than 100 stairs - I counted them!!... And I had a cold...)
These days you hear a lot of people say they've been to Mt Everest Base Camp & sound like they're quite content with that - as they should be, it's still a great thing to have done & at least you get to come back from there alive, which is not so certain if you keep going up...
There is even some doubt about Edmund Hilary's claim to have been the first to climb Everest, as the early 20th century climber George Mallory's body was found up there, at a point which suggests he might have got to the top before dying. Certainly Mr Hilary & the redoubtable Tensing Norgay were the first to get back down alive... I'm in the camp of those who think Tensing Norgay got there first, but Edmund didn't take his photo
