Has anyone here scaled Mt. Everest?

I left a trail of Cheetos

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I threw a coin off the Alps once....

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Climbed Denali with guy that found the body of George Mallory on Mt Everest.

Like to try it one day

I have been to Mt Elbert, Co.

Mallory never made it to the summit. The guy I climbed with is one of the best climbers in the world. With modern climbing gear he said he barely made it up the second step (the route was the North Col route, the same as Mallory and Irvine took). He said there is absolutely no way that anyone could have made it with hob nail boot like Mallory would have used.

Most people take the South Col route, which is where all the deaths have occurred this year. Its much easier and less hassle to get permits. The North Col route is thru China.

Not me for sure......I did start the trek to climb all 53 fourteeners in Colorado and finished after climbing one: Greys Peak which is 10th highest at 14,278.

Too tough for me.

Pete said the guy was an egotistical jerk who had to be carried to the top and back down by other climbers who used oxygen tanks because the guy was unable to move due to lack of oxygen.

What an experience. Hauled to the top and then back down on a stretcher. That's how memories are made.

If somebody gave me a ticket for summitting Everest ($10K or so value), I think I would come here and try to trade it for some coins.

Climbed several small mountains in the Catskills, and Mt. St. Helens in WA state... long after the eruption...part way up Rainier...I just like being in mountain country.... Cheers, RickO

@AUandAG said:
Not me for sure......I did start the trek to climb all 53 fourteeners in Colorado and finished after climbing one: Greys Peak which is 10th highest at 14,278.

Too tough for me.

I started on this, too. I quit after 24 of them. Although, I did run up Pike's Peak several times. I never placed well. My friend won (and set the record) for the pikes peak half marathon. He did it in under 2 hours - 13.3 miles. 6500feet elevation to over 14k.

Never attempted Everest.

To keep this coin-related:

The book Into the Silence - The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis (published 2011) is about the three British mountaineering expeditions in 1921, 1922, and 1924 to Tibet whose purpose was to climb Mount Everest. All three expeditions failed to climb the mountain and the last one resulted in the deaths of two of the climbers, Mallory and Irvine.

Some Tibetans opposed the expeditions for religious reasons and some wondered why the British were trying to do something so dangerous to themselves.

In Tibetan, there is no word for a mountain summit; the very place the British so avidly sought, their highest goal, did not even exist in the language of their Sherpa porters.

Among the "Tigers", men handpicked by Norton and Bruce [expedition leaders] for the most difficult work at the highest elevations, there were many who believed that the British were actually searching for treasure a golden statue of a cow, perhaps a yak, rumored to reside at the highest point, which they would pillage and melt down into coins.

The British had to use Tibetan silver coins, similar to this one, to pay the porters to carry their equipment in 1921 and 1922.

Tibet silver tangka made in the 1920's
Base silver, 27mm, 3.60gm

In 1924 things were different:

Between them they drove ten mules laden only with money. The previous year [1923], the Tibetan authorities had recalled all of the silver in the country, forcing the expedition to rely on copper currency, seventy-five thousand coins altogether.

Tibet copper shokang made in the 1920's (1925)
Copper, 23mm, 5.18gm

They are still searching for that golden statue to make the coins from:

Mt. Everest climbers line up

https://www.yahoo.com/news/climber-reveals-carnage-everest-summit-191101069.html

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So what we are saying is that coin collection is more dangerous then mountain climbing

Reading our local paper. One of the two Americans who just died is from here.