Would you risk climbing Mount Everest, if money was no object?

[Anonymous]

Yes!

Hell no!

[Screenwriter]

If I had a year to completely devote myself to getting physically in the best shape possible to attempt such a climb, a maybe maybe..

BUTTT, the big but is there are 300 dead bodies on Everest. There are so many ways to run into trouble that aren't directly attributable to being in the Death Zone, which seems to kill the most people. There is the weather, serac collapses (ice that simply breaks up and cascades down taking whoever's on it with it).

It would seem to me there are far more livable and equally challenging mountains to climb, such as Denali, right here in the USA. It's such a waste just to say you were on the tallest mountain. It's Type A kinda stuff I wouldn't participate in.

I don't want frostbite, or to be in the cold. Ultimately, there are other fish to fry. Rather swim the Great Barrier Reef and see beauty. There's nothing to SEE or DO on Everest. It's not enjoyable. How does it improve your life or the world? It doesn't.

[ArrowheadSW]

Yes I'm an avid hiker and I have no interest in Everest. Well said. Nor do I want to hike Mt. Whitney.

[Screenwriter]

@ArrowheadSW What's so special about Mt. Whitney Arrow? My son wants the two of us to hike out West and I'd like to find possible places to go. I have many, many squats to complete before I'm ready though... Biking some right now.

[ArrowheadSW]

Yeah that's just it. I don't know what is so special about Mt. Whitney. It is a dirt and rocks past a certain point and it is high up and grueling. And the other one I don't get, is hiking up the backside of Half Dome in Yosemite.

[Screenwriter]

@ArrowheadSW Half Dome is said to be 17 miles of super strenuous hiking. Again. Those type As... The only thing I see as valuable on that hike is seeing that lovely waterfall. But just doing something because it's super-strenuous is absurd unless you're in the Olympics. But that just might BE the case. They're out to prove something to themselves... I'm not. I'm about MODEST victories.

[ArrowheadSW]

@Screenwriter And those waterfalls on the hike are in the early part of it. I have no reason to go all the way up there. I had to lay it on the line with someone who wanted to take their dad on it who was diabetic and in declining health. I abruptly said that he'd be brought down in a body bag. Turns out he was diagnosed with coronary artery disease after that. Good thing I talked them out of it. Just because a healthy forty year old does it doesn't mean their out of shape dad can. It is dumb.

[Screenwriter]

@ArrowheadSW i don't understand "grueling." Same thing as Everest. Why is pain so important? Grit? I want to have a good time and a leisurely pace. No rush or fuss. Take in the sights. Enjoy. Kisses!!!

[jennifer_bloom]

I like comfortable exercises and Mount Everest isn’t comfortable, a 20 minute stair climb is comfortable and fun, not Mount Everest.

[zagor]

Only if I became an experienced mountaineer first - I wouldn't do it on one of the guided "tourist trips". I know even for those you have to be in excellent shape and know something about climbing, but I would want to be responsible for myself.

Since that isn't going to happen, I would say no.

by the way it is miserable doing the climb even for experienced climbers.

[DryGermanGuy]

No way, José. It’s grueling, brutal, cold as hell and chances are you die on that mountain. 🥶🥶🥶
I may travel there to visit basecamp one day, but that’s as far as I will go.

[Msputiton]

No, i heard too many stories of deaths and extreme frostbite, where people had to have body parts amputated.

[RolandCuthbert]

Nah. . . but I do have a bucket list item. Basecamp Everest.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/0AhGZYzfezY

[DryGermanGuy]

Me, too! 👍

[laurieluvsit]

No thank you, I hate the cold.

I had my most fun out in the Arizona desert a few weeks ago with my F W B and temperatures up to 112 degrees.

Clothes are not needed there, just lots of sunscreen... lol

[NamerOfStars]

Once you get above ten thousand feet, obstructive sleep apnea starts acting like central apnea, and central apnea straight-up starts trying to kill you. I probably wouldn't even make it to base camp.

[NathanDavis]

I would never make it my first climb... lol

the problem would be me not having experience in mountaineering at that level

I would just become a risk and a liability to other actual alpinists

[Avicenna]

Wow, now that would be an experience of a lifetime. But I agree with those who say it's too risky, and I have four young kids, so I'd have to pass, as much as I love climbing smaller mountains.

[qwert1234]

No.

I know I am not fit. I need both money and time.

I lose breath running on a threadmill, on sea level altitude. Everest will kill me.

[AviatorTom]

Why do some people climb climb a mountain? Because it's there.

It's there for me too, and I enjoy looking at it... in it's natural beauty.

[exitseven]

Yes, I would train for it and make a plan and hire a guide and do it.

[EmmaMary]

Perhaps ten years ago I most certainly would have been up for it.

[slatyb]

There’s a 10% fatality rate, and it sounds miserable.

[ArrowheadSW]

I love hiking but I have no interest in that. Not the kind of enjoyable hiking that I like.

[FictionalCharacter]

No. I’m already living in negative degree weather

[Luopio27]

Hell no, its cold as fuck up there. They should have a lift and a coffeeshop up there, and a balcony.

[kellytheman]

Yeah but I might need some training and get in better shape to actually do it also I kinda hate the cold.

[Iron_Man]

Yes after I’m professionally trained and in the best shape of my life

[RationalMale]

Nah. Risk of death is too high for me to be worth it.

[Wise4myage]

No. That second pic says it all. Plus, all the trash that is left behind is disgusting.

[Anonymous]

If money's no object, I'll just hire an expertly skilled pilot to fly me on a specialized aircraft or helicopter and land it on the summit of Everest, K2, etc.

[TonightYouu]

What risk it’s just rocks they don’t do sht they’re just THERE