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turns out the mum and dad were on the news recently as the couple who took a sabbatical to take their son out of preschool to travel around the world 
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I know more than one adult who got seriously fricked up just going to basecamp because of the altitude. I'm assuming this couple did zero research.
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Reading Jon Krakauer's original article that he expanded into Into Thin Air in an old sports story anthology convinced me that Everest was much more of a killer mountain than I originally thought. It has bad snowstorms that reduce visibility to three feet, places where you fall to your death thousands of feet below if you do one misstep, and where you have to climb for a week up and then down to even say you completed the ascent alive. Reading about the Hillary Step convinced me that the most technical teams with the most talented guides and Sherpas could complete it alive.
!bookworms
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Yeah…and it takes a while to get transported if you get fricked…even from basecamp you can't just leave asap, you have to wait for transportation and the weather to be amenable.
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Yeah but the sherpas take on almost all of the actual risk establishing the trail that expeditions will take later
in the season.
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Notably, none of the Sherpas died in the 1996 disaster he was involved in. There was genuinely a part in it where some other client on his expedition who didn't complete an ascent upwards the last time he went pressed their (non-Sherpa) guide Rob Hall to go up the summit past the deadline of trying to get to the summit at 1:00 PM. Said climber tried to go up with Hall but fell down from exhaustion and Hall decided to stay behind with the climber than rejoin the climbers trying to get back to base camp because he didn't leave him behind for making a life-costing mistake
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I was curious
so I went and checked. Sherpas disproportionately die from avalanches due to spending most of their time on the mountain(s) restocking base camps and setting ropes in the most dangerous sections, while climbing 
expeditions are much more likely to pass away in storms and from falls (I wonder 
if that's skill level?). Into Thin Air was a fun read, when I was 19 I spent a year living 
in my car driving 
around the west going 
to NPs to camp/hike and I picked it up before 
I left. That was a long time ago though.
https://qz.com/201346/why-sherpas-are-more-likely-to-die-on-mount-everest-than-western-climbers
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Into the Wild-pilled
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Actually
I was mostly trying to get off opiates and decided it was a better 
distraction and expenditure than having my parents put me in rehab. Half the reason rehab 
programs "work" is by forcing you out of your previous environment/habits and limiting your access 
to your substance of choice, anyway.
I got laid in the Grand Canyon with a girl I met who worked at one of the lodges and got to see Yellowstone/Glacier/Zion etc. It was a great
year.
Then I relapsed when I returned to Baltimore.
But I'm better 
now. 
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Understandable
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But tbh Maryland as a whole isn't that bad. Housing priced me out of staying in my 20s though since the livable portion is in the DC metro.
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Good book btw
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It's kinda nuts that an earthquake basically flattened the Hillary Step.
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