No Heroes In Thin Air

[geoffrey]

I have trouble with people dismissing the ease of an accomplishment when they haven't done it, or something even relatively difficult, themselves.

Sorry, GEOFFREY, perhaps I didn't make myself clear.

It's not the so called "ease" that I am dismissing.

Climbing Everest would be anything BUT easy.

But it is an extremely high-risk endeavour, and one which I consider foolish.

If you want something to test your endurance, try a marathon, or an iron-man competition, or a triathlon, or any number of other physically demanding endeavours.

Everest is unforgiving. Fatally so.

In that regard my sympathy is limited for someone who simply climbs Everest for the sport or prestige of having done so.

If you run a marathon, there oare doctors on hand in case of physical breakdown.

No such luxury on Everest.

It's like an amateur trying out the flying trapeze.....without a safety net.

Ah, in that case, I agree with you. Definitely an enter at your own risk and ask for no sympathy sign at Everest.