And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
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Everest summiters have a 4% fatality rate. K2 is 25%.
Yup. K2 is to Everest as Major League baseball is to the minors. Inspired me to reread a 1980's book on a K2 expedition I have. 27 made it to the summit. 13 died.
Heaven is for SOME of the motivated.
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Ban Mountains and sever ties with the National Sherpa Association. That'll fix the Everest mass killing problem.
ReplyDeleteYup. K2 is to Everest as Major League baseball is to the minors.
ReplyDeleteInspired me to reread a 1980's book on a K2 expedition I have. 27 made it to the summit. 13 died.
Actually Annapurna has the highest fatality rate of all the eight-thousanders - 32%.
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