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Saw the final episode last night. Good stuff. What amazes me is these guys try this more than once. Tim the Biker Dude actually wants to return next year.

I've done a lot of easy mountaineering, with the hardest being a hike to the top of Mt. Whitney with an 85 pound pack. As someone who doesn't like cold weather too much, I have no interest in suffering on Everest.

Remember that thread last summer about the dying guy on Everest who was just left their to die, and the controversy of it? Well, it was actually the very members of the team that was featured on the TV show who left him there. But if you saw the show, you know now what they were up against, and had no choice but to leave him to die. The Lebanese climber who first found him, Max Chaya, is obviously a good man. Again, he had no choice.