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Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
Something about Everest just absolutely calls to me.
Anyone else hooked on this stuff? Don't know why I'm so insanely attracted to it, but I am.
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Yup. I read all the stuff there is to read on it - but frankly am not in good enough shape to even think about climbing the sucker.
A couple of years ago we were in Kathmandu and took a flight (On "Buddha Airways" no less) that took us around the peak of Everest. Absolutely nothing you have ever seen in the Alps or elsewhere prepares you for the incredible majesty of Everest. The scale of the thing is the most humbling thing I have ever experienced. After seeing the mountain from the air, I can no longer begin to fathom how any sane person could attempt to climb it.
And we experienced the treacherous weather shifts first hand. It was a perfect sunny day when suddenly clouds came in out of nowhere. Now these guys fly VFR in pressurized turboprops, and the pilot had to dive down into the valley in order to lose altitude before the clouds rolled in. We were ****eing ourselves in the back. And this all happened in the space of two or three minutes. I can't imagine what that must be like up one the ice fields.
I am absolutely in awe of people who have made it to the peak.