Mount Everest deaths

[idahoblues]

I used to like climbing but had one close call too many, the last one being a very close one. There's been at least thirty fatalities since I've been living out here, quite a few of them guides, so a no from me

 

[Worsleyweb]

My climbing days are over

 

[blueinsa]

Climbing out of fucking bed is enough these days!

 

[Tuearts right boot]

I drive up Cadir Idris 2 or 3 times a week, does that count.

 

[pee dubya]

Been to the base camp, it was beautiful. It was off season for Everest (November) but it was 4 weeks of pure blue sky, completely serene, zero sense of any danger.

One night there was a minor earthquake, there was a couple of guys on a nearby mountain called Ama Dablam, a chunk of ice broke off above them and wiped them out. The conditions were as perfect as could be, they did nothing wrong, just pure bad luck.

 

[levets]

Some people are idiots. 2 separate occasions since Covid I've advised groups of tourists here that due to weather and conditions they shouldn't go anywhere fucking near Carantuohill and 2 times they've had to be rescued. After my straight up telling them I've been up that mountain more than 50 times and in conditions like that I wouldn't go fucking near it.

I struggled with Bray Head and Sugar loaf ffs

 

[Lavinda Past]

I drive up Cadir Idris 2 or 3 times a week, does that count.

I find myself changing my mind about going up Cader Idris when I approach the Brigand's Inn...

Lovely views from the garden.

 

[Lavinda Past]

I clambered up a few big hills and little mountains in my youth. The one thing that I learned from experience is that mountains always look a lot better from the bottom than they do from the top.

 

[mackenzie]

Love reading about mountaineering and the reasons people put themselves through the "death zone."
I find the whole story/mystery of Mallory and Irvine, in particular, fascinating.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Did the Great Orme and Rivington Pike, easy. As for Everest, Jon Krakauer's book is bloody terrifying.