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Life is random, from birth to death. We probably should not live it with fear or hard expectations. I remember reading on Twitter about an entrepreneur that was
by adamredwoods 9y ago
Life is random, from birth to death. We probably should not live it with fear or hard expectations. I remember reading on Twitter about an entrepreneur that was killed instantly from an avalanche on Mt Everest. Who could predict?
Just do the best you can, try to be kind, and use sunscreen.
- billforsternz 9y agoI agree with your conclusion, but really you should not be doing adventure tourism (edit: Maybe I'm assuming too much) on Mt Everest unless you realise that you are dramatically elevating your chances of sudden death.
- wheels 9y agoNot to be callous, but dying climbing Mt. Everest isn't random. Climbing Mt. Everest has a lower survival rate than stage 1 cancer. Chance of death is about 10%.
- LewisJEllis 9y agoNonsense, please check your sources; you're off by nearly an order of magnitude. Death rate throughout Everest's entire history is around 4%, and around 2% from 2000 to present. That's also skewed a bit by 2014 and 2015 being particularly bad years; it was 1.4% between 2000 and 2010, and 2016 and 2017 are both around 1%. If you have a 10% figure in your head, you must be thinking of K2 or another more dangerous mountain.
- mathgeek 9y agoWikipedia shows that from 2011-16, there were roughly 2000 folks who tried to climb to the summit of Everest, and about 70 deaths on the mountain (including those not trying to reach the summit).