I don’t care about some extreme hiker. So it was cold, who gives a shit.
I said exploration.
Exploration, by definition, is an act of finding, documenting and furthering the world. Sharing is exploration. Not talking about some weekend hike with friends in the pub.
I know what you’re talking about and there still are expolrations
The fact that we are grown men and live on this planet and will never know what is in Antarctica should bother you as much as it does me. It just should.
I don’t need to go to Antarctica, I did go to Everest
Nice. Kind of the Walmart of mountains but nice.
That $60K should have gone to BTC if this trip was any time since 2008.
I trekked to base camp, was an amazing experience. Everest is no Walmart of
Mountains. It’s a phenomenal mountain range
Sounds awesome. Pyramids are on the family list here.
I don’t have much desire to do the Everest thing. If I did, I’d bring the skis a tear it up.
That’d be one hell of a ski trip
I’d be the frozen guy they find head down/skis up, 40 years later.
There are plenty of those on Everest
Have you read ‘touching the void’ ?
I spent a great evening in the pub with Joe Simpson. He is a true explorer . A climber who pushed himself to extremes and has lost many ‘risk taking ‘ friends. A very humble, cool guy.
Wow. Very cool.
Climbing just isn’t my thing. It’s like jumping out of an airplane. Fun for the people doing it and you push yourself mentally/physically but the risk of death just to say u did it doesn’t compute with me.
Sherpas climb those mountains like it’s a walk in the park. They don’t make many lists of the amazing climbers. Some do but rare.
I’ve always thought that the world would be a better place if boys/men engaged in more risk taking behaviour. We should feel like we were on the cusp of death, at least once. I think we would appreciate life a little more.
👆💯🤔You get it.
It’s not difficult to get what you’re saying, if you want to go deep then off you go. It’s possible to go very extreme
very quickly. Risk taking leads to loads of death every year. That’s not your
point of exploring though. You seem to be saying we all play it too safe nowadays which is true, but many still push boundaries
