It's a wonder he got to 76 doing stupid crap like that.

I bet that's pissed Ranulph Fines off!!

/So close Sir Ranulph.....

As my wife likes to say... "Its expected that you'll be young and foolish, just don't be old and stupid."

/Probably heard there was a farmer's market up there.
//Back in his day, mountains were 10 times taller
///And you had to go uphill both ways to climb 'em!

Ranulph Fiennes? I bet it pissed Katsusuke Yanagisawa off. I bet Katsusuke goes up there again, for the fourth time, just to be the oldest man to climb Everest.. again.

/Katsusuke is badass.

what kind of onion did he use?

Didn't a blind guy climb it a few years back?

No celebration until he gets back down. Kinda surprised that the article came out already.

Farking thimble collection

FTA: "He was among more than 80 climbers to reach the summit that day - the largest number ever in a single day from the Nepalese side of the peak."

They're going to have to get traffic control cops. And they should be fining people who litter the mountain with their garbage, dead bodies, etc.

Remember: Anything middle-aged white men can do well is not a sport.

Still, he is a sherpa. Jacques Cousteau was over 800 years old and still diving!

brantgoose:
Remember: Anything middle-aged white men can do well is not a sport.

Still, he is a sherpa. Jacques Cousteau was over 800 years old and still diving!

Heh. If he's a Sherpa, then he's not a white man. Unless you're insinuating something else? And Katsusuke Yanagisawa is still the only man who skied down Everest.

I think the "get off my lawn" cliche has paid its dues. Can we release it in to the wild now?

As a guy in his mid-50's desperately trying to maintain a measure of fitness, I kneel before such gods of advancing age.

/well done, sir!

... and doesn't notice all those dead brain cells.

It isn't the summit, it's the style of the ascent.

Paying client on a guided trip? Attractive and successful climber, please.

You want to climb Mt Everest? Arrange your own travel and supply logistics, hump in your own loads from the nearest road, put in your own camps, fix your own ropes, do your own climbing and then pick up your trash on the way out. Extra hardman points for not using supplemental oxygen, however if you DO, you bring every bottle yourself and you pack them all back out. Leave no trace.

That's how you do it.

Summiting Everest as a paying client on a guided climb is still quite an achievement. But if you really want to meet that mountain on it's own terms, you climb it yourself and don't pay other people to climb it for you.

everest becomes more and more a joke with every feeble old man, child, and cripple that reaches the summit.

studebaker hoch: It isn't the summit, it's the style of the ascent.

Paying client on a guided trip? Attractive and successful climber, please.

You want to climb Mt Everest? Arrange your own travel and supply logistics, hump in your own loads from the nearest road, put in your own camps, fix your own ropes, do your own climbing and then pick up your trash on the way out. Extra hardman points for not using supplemental oxygen, however if you DO, you bring every bottle yourself and you pack them all back out. Leave no trace.

That's how you do it.

Summiting Everest as a paying client on a guided climb is still quite an achievement. But if you really want to meet that mountain on it's own terms, you climb it yourself and don't pay other people to climb it for you.

It's been done

Link (new window)

/Don't know if he packed his trash out

skatedrifter

Oh yeah, real climbers actually climb the thing themselves.

My favorite was the kid that rode his bicycle from the Netherlands to Mt Everest, soloed the peak without supplemental oxygen, then rode his bicycle back home.

The more books I read about Everest and other Himalayan climbs, the less I want to go above 14K feet.

I'm gonna try to summit something that's 10K and has a cute name, like Deer Mountain, or Lily Mountain. More my speed.

Göran Kropp was the guy that rode his bike to the mountain and then back home.

Wiki link (fark won't take it as a link)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ran_Kropp

Attention whores, the lot of 'em.

studebaker hoch: Göran Kropp was the guy that rode his bike to the mountain and then back home.

Wiki link (fark won't take it as a link)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ran_Kropp

B-b-but he shot a poowar bear!

I don't know about the bear story, but it sounds the thing was stalking him.

I'd shoot it too.

/of course I wouldn't want to.

buttcat: I think the "get off my lawn" cliche has paid its dues. Can we release it in to the wild now?

And then can we shoot it?

studebaker hoch: It isn't the summit, it's the style of the ascent.

Paying client on a guided trip? Attractive and successful climber, please.

You want to climb Mt Everest? Arrange your own travel and supply logistics, hump in your own loads from the nearest road, put in your own camps, fix your own ropes, do your own climbing and then pick up your trash on the way out. Extra hardman points for not using supplemental oxygen, however if you DO, you bring every bottle yourself and you pack them all back out. Leave no trace.

That's how you do it.

Summiting Everest as a paying client on a guided climb is still quite an achievement. But if you really want to meet that mountain on it's own terms, you climb it yourself and don't pay other people to climb it for you.

Or just go up via the East face. That is plenty badass, too!

get off my [tired fark cliche]

So did he take the escalator, or did he do it the old fashion method of just being strapped to a local and dragged to the top?

Real accomplishment there, Lou.

Big Deal

jruland: everest becomes more and more a joke with every feeble old man, child, and cripple that reaches the summit.

sadly... this.

Fat Horny Black and Joe: Farking thimble collection

Mr. Show FTW !