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May 25, 2006

No this is not an Onion feature

Yes, there was the time his team - and those Indian airforce pilots - risked their lives to save him and he would like to think people would stop to save him again and he understands there are moral issues here and hobbling over a dying man to get to the summit of Everest might make it a "hollow victory" thereby harshing his buzz BUT Climbing Everest is "an egotistical thing to do."

Everest is said to be littered with corpses. In my 30 years of climbing, I never saw a dead body on a mountain but I know I would have found it deeply shocking to have been brought so close to the prospect of my own death in this way. Objectively, climbers accept their mortality - but there is an inevitable element of self-deception and self-belief at play: subjectively, they don't think it will happen to them.

Not to worry, Stephen Venables. After reading this nasty little screed I would not piss on you if you were on fire.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 25, 2006 07:19 AM

Comments

You're right, ghost. The unselfconscious vanity of this twit is frightening. Do you think he'll have trouble find climbing partners in the future or are they all this way?

Posted by: cobalt blue at May 26, 2006 02:28 AM