compleaty irresponsible, moutine climbing ( ie Everest and tall mountains) is largely chance based not skill based u might as well hold a gun to your head.

some aspects of climbing are skill based but Manny climbs r just risk based. encouraging this sort of behavior would be like encouraging potentially dangerous drug use.

I so very disagree....I have been climbing for years...since I was a kid, admittedly they weren't the peaks that this kid climbs but making it to the top is quite an accomplishment the highest peaks I've climbed here are Mount Washington and Mount Adams and the feeling of making it to the top is truly a spiritual experience. What a horrible thing to say about climbers, I'm sure you never even attempted to climb anything thus you have no knowledge of what you speak!

did you read what i put ?

"compleaty irresponsible, moutine climbing ( ie Everest and tall mountains) is largely chance based" < did you red this part of what i said ?

I know people that do real world climbing and have read about it and its fairly clear that when people die on mointines its normally chance not skill /prperatoin based, ESPECIALLY when its the tall ones.

You can find technical mounties that are not that tall but are infinitely more skill full,/less chance based risk to climb than say Everest. alot of the deaths on the tall mountains are caused by the weather + altitude not climber inability. (altitude often affecting peoples abilities to think properly)

the point is there are Manny hills and mountines u can climb reasonably safely and have good fun + chalnge. there are some that are just a gamble.

its like the difference between sky diving and base jumping . alot of the people that get savierly hurt / die in sky diving is because of there own fault ( swooping to low , opening shoot late, colliding with people in formation dives) in base jumping its just a case of if the shoot opens and which way the wind blows both factors that r out of the control of the participant.


your argument is actually SHIT first of all you admit that you are not talking about evarist and the tall peaks which i am specifically referring to and then you justify your position by the emotive feelings of accomplishment.

that's like me playing Russian rullet and justifying it by the buzz i got from not getting killed. regardless of how i felt it would still be Rigged odds based and annyone of common sence who realy enjoyed stuff like that would do it when thay were older not when thay were 17 and would presumably have other things thay could exsperance before thay put themselfs in a 1-10 death situatoin.

Then rather than attack my argument you say i have no knowledge of climbing well who cares if i had knowledge or not my original point is ether correct or false.

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"The death rate has remained at one death for every 10 successful attempts to climb Everest for many years, the British Medical Journal report states.

Dr Sutherland says poor understanding of the effects of altitude is to blame. "

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"From being there, I saw there were a lot of people with considerable mountaineering experience, but who were fairly naive in some ways about the extreme altitudes they were going to face."

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The bickering in here overpowers the anazing acomplishment of this kid.
Good job for him, What an amazing experience and accomplishments. I can't even imagine what this would do to the mind of one so young. I couldn't imagine having done this, myself, at that age.

Kudos to him!
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lol, I said anazing, I meant amazing...,
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