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03-01-2005 03:21 PM |
What do you put on the top of this cake?
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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
My almost former stepmother-in-law climbed that. It didn't sound Everest-tough from how she described it. Maybe I just wasn't paying too much attention.
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I am about to make sweeping generalizations. Just so you are warned.
The problem with climbs like Everest and K2 now is that, as Coltrane explained, if you have enough cash, you can make the ascent. Hell, I bet there's a Tauck Tour to the top of Everest, complete with Abercrombie tents, a four-star chef, and white-gloved sherpas. So long as you are in reasonably decent shape, some tour operator will drag your ass up the climb, and some other dude will sell you a photo of you, cresting the summit, just before the other fat, rich american behind you does so.
I'm a climber. I've been one for a very long time. And you know what? I have no desire to do Everest or K2 or even Denali. I'm pretty happy hanging off a face somewhere in the Rockies. Some of that's just that I'm older and more jaded, and I freely admit that if you'd handed me a wad of cash and a plane ticket ten or fifteen years ago, I would have gladly kicked Everest's ass.
But now, well, not so much.
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