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.
Monday, October 25, 2021
Standing in line to summit Everest. Silly, and not cool.
Climbing Everest has become more tourism than adventure. Real adventure is becoming much more difficult these days. Read about the search for the Nile's source, and you will see what I mean.
Good book. Also recommend Jim Wickwire's "Addicted to Danger". I've summited Mt. Shasta and that's enough for me. Absolutely no desire to ever go above 18,000 ft. (the death zone).
There are cheaper ways to commit suicide.
ReplyDelete7.5 billion people in the world, 80% have a cell phone.
ReplyDeleteIt seems there are some people that really want to take a selfie on top of that mountain.
As Sir Edmund Hillary once said "You're not mountaineers."
ReplyDeleteIf it was easy everybody would do it....wait it looks like everybody is doing it.
ReplyDeleteif you are not the fist to ever do it, you're just getting your ticket punched
ReplyDeleteClimbing Everest has become more tourism than adventure. Real adventure is becoming much more difficult these days. Read about the search for the Nile's source, and you will see what I mean.
ReplyDeleteNext up. Handicap accessible...
ReplyDeleteReminds me of Peeps lined up for breakfast at Macdonalds in their cars as I drive by and think "Oh Hell No!!"
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many of them died that day.
ReplyDeleteKinda like a Nobel Prize these days.
ReplyDeleteis that real? I thought it was hard to climb Everest. How did they by space buggy care of Bezo?
ReplyDeleteRead Krakauer's Into Thin Air. Make you think twice about this.
ReplyDeleteGood book. Also recommend Jim Wickwire's "Addicted to Danger".
DeleteI've summited Mt. Shasta and that's enough for me. Absolutely no desire to ever go above 18,000 ft. (the death zone).