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Everyone has different preferences. Personally I have no interest in climbing up Everest, but if I could, reasonably cheaply, get there with absolutely no effor
by corin_ 13y ago
Everyone has different preferences. Personally I have no interest in climbing up Everest, but if I could, reasonably cheaply, get there with absolutely no effort for a not-huge price (say $3k for a helicopter to the top and I could get out for an hour) then I might well be up for doing it.
That price/method example isn't an "I hope this is possible", just what it would take for me to personally want to go, I'd be paying for the view and the experience of being up there, rather than the experience of getting up there (since I'm never going to be able to do it that way, I won't be doing it at all). But that's just me, others like you it's largely about the experience, while some people will be in between, wanting some of the experience, but have it be not too difficult.
- venomsnake 13y agoThere is subtle difference in bragging rights between I climbed Everest and I visited Everest.
- sanderjd 13y agoInteresting - your parent didn't say anything about bragging rights. That they talked about "an experience" and you read "bragging rights" is probably a major difference between them and you and generally between people who would be happy to take a helicopter somewhere cool and people who wouldn't feel good about it unless they climbed there.
- corin_ 13y agoWhile you're right that I didn't mention them, and indeed isn't why I'd want to go if I could do it easily, it is the case that there can be "bragging rights" on both sides, just that one is bragging about the achievement and the experience, the other just the experience - if that's your goal. (Let's be honest, even if it's not the reason you want to do it, chances are you would brag, at least a bit.)