I think everybody of you heard about Mount Everest(or Chomolungma). If you want to know more about it, please read this post.
Mount Everest is a legend. World’s highest mountain with its 8848 meters. Imagine only to run, or to walk, almost 9 km. It means already an effort, and not many people will do this.
Climbing these almost 9 km is much worse! You need equipment, you need oxygen, you need intermediate camps and logistics. But a wider philosophical question emerges: why some people climb mountains? Maybe they seek the Gods. The legends about the Gods on Mount Everest are an explanation for the fact that no local conquered this mountain! The New Zealand born Sir Edmund Hillary was the first to realize it, together with a frightened local sherpa Tensing Norge.
Reinhold Meissner conquered Mt Everest without oxygen mask.
Many other people did, but they don’t want publicity. Conquering Everest is before all a fight against your limits. I saw and heard about blinds climbing Everest, about people with amputated legs who conquered Everest, a sherpa did it 17 times etc. It is really wonderful indeed: if you conquered Everest, no other task anymore will be impossible.
I wonder now, why me and you did not conquer Everest!
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June 8th, 2008 at 7:33 am
I love the last photo….picture of a conquerer!
June 8th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
You ask such a thought-provoking question at the end. I hope it was a metaphor, because I know if it was literal I could give you a really quick answer: no way! I’d probably die. But with the metaphor, I’d have to think about how I challenge myself… Nice post.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:47 am
Have you read “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer? It is an account of their Everest climb, a tragic story where a lot of people died because they were caught in a storm. Guides and clients and sherpas died. Such a sad story of very brave people.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
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September 3rd, 2008 at 9:21 am
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March 6th, 2009 at 3:55 am
Well, according to ancient historical facts, the locals of the region have climbed Everest long before Europeans ever thought about climbing it; and yes, they did not have oxygen masks either. I can be sure that they were very used to low pressures of air, since they were mostly lived on higher grounds where air was more thiner, which kept them safe from Mongols and other barbaric people who were out to kill and conquer societies which were not under protection of whoever was ruling them at the time. Adaptation does come in handy when a life form needs to adapt to a certain environment in order to survive. There are other places on Earth, like Peru, where the land is very high, and the air is thinner then most other places around Peru. The people of Peru seem to live long lives, which could be because of the environmental conditions they became used to in order to survive. I believe that human beings are very flexible and can learn to adapt to a new environment, if done gradually and not all of a sudden. People in these high places have also learned to breath with ease, without hyperventilating, which would make matters worse. They also had access to some sort of herbal remedy to help them with such journeys to the high places. Some of the herbs might have been similar to some opium or something similar to cannabis, or other hallucinative herbs to help them focus or be placed in a trance or to be used in some religious method to calm their fears, so that they may climb these tall mountains with ease.
I hope this helps.