Axe on everest sample 1
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This document discusses Sir Edmund Hillary's criticism of the attitude of modern Mount Everest climbers. He believes they are too focused on reaching the summit and do not care about helping others in distress. The document also references climbing to the North Col and using oxygen at 7,300 feet, suggesting it is about the author's own climb of Everest where they utilized oxygen higher up than on previous attempts.
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Axe on everest sample 1
- 2. 2000
- 7. “I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.” Sir Edmund Hillary
- 14. DEATH ZONE Interim Basecamp 19000’/5900m
- 18. Climbing to North Col
- 20. Photo of being in the tent looking at weather
- 22. Picture of me climbing with oxygen?? This time the difference was at 7300 I wore oxygen
Editor's Notes
- Welcome ladies and gentlemen boys and girlsThank you for coming tonight.Name: Grant Rawlinson, everyone calls me AxeTonight I will be telling you a story – a story without an ending.It’s a story about a very ordinary bloke – with no superhuman physical strength, maybe a little shorter and a little balder than the average man, who loves climbing mountains.And a dream to climb the highest mountain in the world.
- From Kathmandu most climbers then approach the mountain from the south side. From the Nepalese side.This involves a plane flight to a mountain airfield called Lukla in Nepal.I decided to attempt everest from the north side – located in Tibet in ChinaThis involves a 6 day drive up into the Tibetan plateau and around to the basecamp on the north side.
- Welcome ladies and gentlemen boys and girlsThank you for coming tonight.Name: Grant Rawlinson, everyone calls me AxeTonight I will be telling you a story – a story without an ending.It’s a story about a very ordinary bloke – with no superhuman physical strength, maybe a little shorter and a little balder than the average man, who loves climbing mountains.And a dream to climb the highest mountain in the world.
- From Kathmandu most climbers then approach the mountain from the south side. From the Nepalese side.This involves a plane flight to a mountain airfield called Lukla in Nepal.I decided to attempt everest from the north side – located in Tibet in ChinaThis involves a 6 day drive up into the Tibetan plateau and around to the basecamp on the north side.
- The route up the north side of everest6 campsEach camp is harder and harder to get too.You don’t climb up one by one all the way to the top.Climb to ABC and the North Col to acclimatise then come back down.Climb up again- come down.Then wait for a weather window to summit. – jet stream winds!!!!!2. JETSTREAM3. The north ridge has claimed 40 lives since 2000Traditional route from south has claimed 20. with many more climbers climbing this way4. DEATH ZONE – area above 8000m…
- Frozen fingers3 months off work