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Is it easier than when Hillary did it? Of course. Is it still incredibly dangerous, where every ascent is a serious gamble with you life? Yes. There have, e
by furyg3 16y ago
Is it easier than when Hillary did it? Of course. Is it still incredibly dangerous, where every ascent is a serious gamble with you life? Yes.
There have, even in recent years, been disastrous years where entire parties have been lost. Here's a list of the deaths:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_on_eight-thousanders#Mount_Everest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_on_eight-thousan...
Many more than that number come back down being carried by their friends, with lungs full of fluid, brain damage, black fingers/toes/hands/feet/noses which need to be amputated, or other serious injuries.
A fantastic read is "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer, which covers a really bad year for climbing on Everest.
- marltod 16y ago"Into thin Air" showed how easy it can be if everything goes well. He talks about people who were out of shape making it. But if one or two things go wrong, you're dead.
- imp 16y agoThe article above links to the page for Annapurna, one of the deadliest mountains on earth (40% fatality rate for climbers), which said this: The second summit team, Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz and Vera Watson, died during this climb. (Vera Watson was survived by her husband, the computer scientist John McCarthy.)[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna
- dagw 16y agoDangerous doesn't mean hard and easy doesn't mean safe. As long you are among the lucky group who don't run into problems then it's quite an easy climb (relatively speaking)
- silkodyssey 16y agoRussian roulette.