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a sport where the trophy is surviving the thing trying to kill you.
means The activity of climbing mountains, especially the technical, high-altitude kind that demands ropes, ice axes, and a tolerance for thin air and worse weather.
from Built from "mountain" plus the suffix "-eer" (one who deals with a thing, as in "engineer" or "pioneer"), then verbed into "-eering." "Mountain" itself climbs back through Old French "montaigne" to Latin "mons, montis," a hill or mountain. The word emerged as a proper pursuit in the 19th century, when European Alpinists turned scrambling up peaks from a peasant's necessity into a gentleman's obsession.
- Death zone
- Above 8,000m your body literally dies slowly
- Everest cost
- Permit alone runs around 11,000 dollars
- Frozen landmarks
- Climbers navigate Everest using preserved corpses as markers
- Brain shrinks
- Extreme altitude can temporarily shrink your brain
- First ascent
- Mont Blanc summited in 1786 for a cash prize
mount everest — 29,032 ft peak in himalayas, over 300 summits annually since 1953
k2 — 28,251 ft karakoram mountain, 1 death per 4 summits, deadliest major peak
eiger north face — 3,970 m swiss alpine wall, ~12 deaths per year from climbing attempts
denali west buttress — 20,310 ft alaska peak, most popular high-altitude climb in north america