Everest Summit!!!

Everest Summit, 4 June 2005, Mt. Everest Summit

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[jamiepercy1001]

I want to be the youngest person to ACTUALLY climb Everest. Not cheat it by using oxygen. I have been training my entire life for this. Jordan Romero actually wrote a book about how he "conquered" Everest. YOU DIDNT! It let you be dragged up its slopes and back down safely. No one has or will conquer Everest. It is a mountain of dreams and the only thing we conquer up there is ourselves.

[davidleealford]

well do a favor and cut all the ropes throw the damn Second Step ladder down and then people will have a great challenge once more.

[Tom Torkelson]

I'm not usually one to piss back at people who make negative comments, but you should know that the second step ladder was installed by the first ascent party. So to say "once more" is a bit of an un-truth. Unless you've actually climbed the second step without using the ladder, that is...

[Tom Torkelson]

Go do it! No-one is stopping you! I wasa actually working as a guide and videographer, and almost unanimously, guides will tell you that climbing with Oxygen is the only way they can responsibly be able to help their clients in time of need. I know dozens of people who have summitted w/Oxygen, and they all came home with all their fingers and toes. I know 3 who climbed w/o Oxygen; 1 died trying, and both of the others had at least one digit amputated.

[DGFishrfine]

For the most part, I agree with you. You do not conquer this mountain, it conquers you.

However, I do not believe that bottled oxygen is cheating- if I ever climb Everest, I would use bottled Oxygen, because I owe it to my family to get back down in one piece. I have tremendous respect for those who do it without, but I could never do it without bottled oxygen.

[dragonfitter]

also where green boots died and still is

[dragonfitter]

drink 15 lagers then take an lsd tab and try and walk thats what its like

[matlm]

Are there some good descriptions on what it feels like physically? Is it like trying to walk under water?

[TheDxlgames]

Because up there it takes 70% of your energy just to breathe.



[matlm]

why are the walking so slow?

[Santiago muñoz]

if using oxygen is cheating in what way using a jacket or ceampons isnt?

[Santiago muñoz]

wow

[Declan pollard]

David Sharp? Yeah that is where they found him.

[brianstacync]

hating on a 13 yr old kid that climbed everest? you might be the single biggest loser on the internet that I have ever seen. bar none!

so out the millions of internet trolls who make ridiculous and ingnorant comments from the safety of their mother's basement, you are hands down the BIGGEST LOSER