29 May 17
Originally posted by PonderableMt. Everest is a peculiar beast. It 'speaks' to people. The desire to reach the summit seems to contradict personal well being. Some climbers would be okay with losing limbs to frostbite....just to summit.
Today is the anniverary of the first succesful climbing of Mount Everest aka Sagarmatha or Chomolungma.
And the Mountain is in the News again. A lot of People try to reach the summit.
I compare this to each person's own personal life, because we all have a 'Mt. Everest', something that we would be better off avoiding....but it 'speaks' to us, and we can't help ourselves, we climb it anyway.
What's your Mt. Everest?
Originally posted by chaney3there is a shortcut that I take everyday but it means that I must cut across a busy street and have already been hit once
Mt. Everest is a peculiar beast. It 'speaks' to people. The desire to reach the summit seems to contradict personal well being. Some climbers would be okay with losing limbs to frostbite....just to summit.
I compare this to each person's own personal life, because we all have a 'Mt. Everest', something that we would be better off avoiding....but it 'speaks' to us, and we can't help ourselves, we climb it anyway.
What's your Mt. Everest?
I often wonder if saving 5 minutes is worth it but it's like the hole in the fence speaks to me
Originally posted by PonderableHa? Sagarbloodymatha or Chomobloodylungma?? The very suggestion that the mountain should be called after anything or anyone OTHER than a C19th British civil servant is utterly monstrous.
Today is the anniverary of the first succesful climbing of Mount Everest aka Sagarmatha or Chomolungma.
30 May 17
Originally posted by FMFHear, hear.
Ha? Sagarbloodymatha or Chomobloodylungma?? The very suggestion that the mountain should be called after anything or anyone OTHER than a C19th British civil servant is utterly monstrous.
After all, the British invented mountains.
I would of course support a UN initiative to rename it Mt Hillary.
30 May 17
Originally posted by FMFQuite right old chap, quite right...
Ha? Sagarbloodymatha or Chomobloodylungma?? The very suggestion that the mountain should be called after anything or anyone OTHER than a C19th British civil servant is utterly monstrous.
But let's be quite clear - you mean, surely, an ENGLISH civil servant, eh what?
Not that Scotchmen are not entirely without use of course - I'm told at the club that they make damn' fine pheasant beaters, eh?
30 May 17
Originally posted by Trev33Someone who is 2m tall standing in a 50cm hole is still taller than a 1.8m man beside him.
It might be longer from bottom to top but it's not taller.
I've seen Everest from the Indian side, anyone who tries to climb it is a bit mental imo.
(Even though the 1.8m man is higher)
🙂
Of course Everest is not even the highest if measured from the centre of the Earth.
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30 May 17
Originally posted by wolfgang59Ins't it a volcano that's highest from the centre of earth?
Someone who is 2m tall standing in a 50cm hole is still taller than a 1.8m man beside him.
(Even though the 1.8m man is higher)
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Of course Everest is not even the highest if measured from the centre of the Earth.
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31 May 17
Originally posted by wolfgang59Chimborazo in Ecuador 😲
It's somewhere on the equator ... the "bulge" makes it "higher".
It could be a volcano.
Unless you beat me to it I'll look it up in the next 24 hours.w
I passed trough Riobamba about 9 years ago but the weather was so bad I couldn't see it very well.