Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Your happy thought for the day


Everest summiters have a 4% fatality rate. K2 is 25%. 

4 comments:

  1. Heaven is for SOME of the motivated.

    Hell is for all of the slackers.

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  2. Ban Mountains and sever ties with the National Sherpa Association. That'll fix the Everest mass killing problem.

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  3. 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.

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  4. Actually Annapurna has the highest fatality rate of all the eight-thousanders - 32%.

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