Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:27 am
They might have made it to the top, but it wasn't a successful climb because they didn't make it back down.
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wingding wrote:They might have made it to the top, but it wasn't a successful climb because they didn't make it back down.
MoapaPk wrote:wingding wrote:They might have made it to the top, but it wasn't a successful climb because they didn't make it back down.
You read my mind.
MoapaPk wrote:wingding wrote:They might have made it to the top, but it wasn't a successful climb because they didn't make it back down.
You read my mind.
Diego Sahagún wrote:Yes, a famous climber (I don't remind who was now) said: you don't climb a mountain till you descend it (more or less). And I think he was right. Also my thought is that is better a good partner than an experienced one but not useful. With this, I don't want to say Odell was a bad partner. Hasta luego.
charles wrote:MoapaPk wrote:wingding wrote:They might have made it to the top, but it wasn't a successful climb because they didn't make it back down.
You read my mind.
Reaching the summit has surely nothing to do with getting back down. It is of course preferable to do that too, but if someone is first to climb a hill, i.e. reach the summit, then they´re the first.
Andinistaloco wrote:Certainly getting killed on the way down a mountain is failing on a number of levels, but it does not change the fact that someone was the first to climbit.
gingerking wrote:Dingus Milktoast wrote:I hope no answer is EVER found. I wish people would stop looking. I like the enduring mysteries of our sport. If I found the ice man I wouldn't tell anyone.
DMT
+1
humans and this terrible itch we have to know. its not important and, IMO, the people who discover the greatest things in life are those who accept that there are things they will never understand. they dont chase ghosts untill they can prove that ghosts are just loose sheets in the wind, they enjoy that there are still wild things and unknowns in the world.
if i found a 1950s lookin camera on everest (never gonna happen) i would smash it to pieces. why? its not important.
they tried. they had more balls than anyone else. give them the respect they deserve and drop it out of respect. dead men have no pride so all that can be gained from knowing is just that, knowing. a cure for the itch of your curiosity. what a selfish sentiment.
gingerking wrote:Dingus Milktoast wrote:I hope no answer is EVER found. I wish people would stop looking. I like the enduring mysteries of our sport. If I found the ice man I wouldn't tell anyone.
DMT
+1
humans and this terrible itch we have to know. its not important and, IMO, the people who discover the greatest things in life are those who accept that there are things they will never understand. they dont chase ghosts untill they can prove that ghosts are just loose sheets in the wind, they enjoy that there are still wild things and unknowns in the world.
if i found a 1950s lookin camera on everest (never gonna happen) i would smash it to pieces. why? its not important.
they tried. they had more balls than anyone else. give them the respect they deserve and drop it out of respect. dead men have no pride so all that can be gained from knowing is just that, knowing. a cure for the itch of your curiosity. what a selfish sentiment.
humans and this terrible itch we have to know.