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They were miserable, mountaineers however are used to misery and suffering it is part of the activity. The hard part is that you become much slower, weaker and
by tlear 7y ago
They were miserable, mountaineers however are used to misery and suffering it is part of the activity.
The hard part is that you become much slower, weaker and you judgement is impaired. Also different people have different ability to adopt. Except for Sherpa who have evolutionary adaptation, in normal population there are not that many people who can do it even if they trained their whole life.
No oxygen climbing if you can do it is in some way safer. You go faster, you do not depend on heavy canisters. You do not need to stock upper camps with oxygen. All of this minimizes objective danger(avalanche, serac falls etc) the shorter you are up the safer you are.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoI read that Everest climbers start with as many as 70 tents. Most are to hold supplies (and other tents) at progressively higher/smaller camps, eventually resulting in the last tent at the highest camp before the attempt on the peak. So dozens of trips are taken to ferry tents/supplies up to the next camp. Which add risk for every hour on the mountain.