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The science channel is going to have a multi episode story on a guy who is going to jump off Mt Everest with a wing suit???!! No thanks but I am only a little crazy,

Yea, I am thinking the thin air, and a mountain that kills people every year will cost several thousand dollars to scrape him up.

I think that unless the family pays for it they just leave em there.

Rick

I have or had a book somewhere around about a guy who skied down it with a hang glder on. It was a Japanese guy. In the book it was mentioned that the top of the mountain was full of garbage. Now they have much stricter rules about bringing all your junk back down the mountain. For awhile after I watched a show on tv I got every book about every climb. Some take drugs to hold more oxygen in the system. One climb was all doctors all taking drugs.One guy named Dr Beck has no idea how he got back down the mountain. He lost his hands to frostbite. The Sherpas used to take off their shoes in the old days to get a better feel for the ice. That was before the cramp-ons were invented. After every book I concluded it is a stupid idea.Just about all had deaths in the group.It is also possible that Mallory and Irving had summited before nnalert but no way to tell.One of the picks was found higher than the bodies leading some to beleive that they were on the way back down after summiting. The odds of being killed going down are eight times greater than going up as up you can see what you are reaching for but down you lose your footing alot easier.

I have a porch, I'll let the big dogs run there.

I remember watching a film about "The man who skied down Everest". He had a parachute on and fell not too far from a deep crevice. The parachute wouldn't have saved him. The guy had previously set records for the fastest speed skiing downhill.

Thats the name of the book too. I read so many I forgot alot of what happened to him. I just remember a chapter about it being a garbage dump with ripped up tents ,oxy canisters and clothing ,all over the place.

Yes, I remember seeing that movie. The skier was Japanese, although he did a lot more falling than skiing. Compared to what that skier went through, the wing suit sounds like a cakewalk. (I say as I recover from dislocated shoulder, the result of my last attempt at downhill skiing.)

A bit OT, but the Science Channel used to be about SCIENCE, not wannabee celebrities doing stupid stuff. The Military, American Heroes now, Channel used to about military matters and airplanes. Now it's got mob stories and religious history. What happened? For that matter Sci-Fi channel used to have SCI-FI! Now it's wrestling and stupid ghost chasers.

250 channels and I can't find anything worth watching.......

He needs to go for it always good to thin the herd a little

You are correct it was a parachute not a hang glider. The guys name was Yuichiro Miura. I looked up on my shelf and there was the book. Copywright 1978.It looks like a smaller than normal round chute.

Ummm hmmm, thats my dream, GO JUMP OFF A CLIFF!!

I guess we all have something different in life that we feel we need to accomplish, I personally DO NOT feel the need to go jump off of the mountain, besides, I have already stood on the top of the highest mountain in the world, can anyone guess what/where? Bryce

Well, if you stood on the highest mountain that would be Everest. Since I don't remember ever reading about you summiting Mount Everest. A mountain of junk tires in your back yard ?

Actually, Haleakala Crater on the island of Maui is the tallest mountain in the world, IF you start counting from it's base underwater to it's peak above water.
The mountain reaches a little over 10000 feet in the air, ABOVE the sea level... I don't know how tall the entire thing is from is base to it's peak, but I do know that it is taller than Everest....

Bryce

That must have been pretty cool.Was that with the Scouts? If you fall off the top of Mt Everest to the right you fall 8000 feet to Tibet .If you fall off to the left you fall 12000 feet to Nepal.

No, dad grew up there, and met mom when she left a bar drunk and crashed her bike into a parked car...

We go there for vacation, they really like it... We went in 07, 10, 11, 13. There is a really big telescope up on top of the mountain and a really cool visitor center. My favorite part about the whole place though is the SilverSword flower. It is the only place in the world that this species is known to live... They are on the edge of extinction, and are being brought back to life, very pretty plant! Takes like 7 or 8 years for one to bloom and produce a seed... Here a link... Bryce
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Nice . None of those in my garden .