News Bad Company
posted by on December 15 at 15:50 PM
From today’s Seattle Times:
One of the world’s top female high-altitude climbers, Seattle-based Christine Boskoff, is presumed missing in the unclimbed 20,000-foot peaks in Southwest China…Boskoff has ascended six of the world’s 26,000-foot peaks, including Mount Everest. She owns Mountain Madness, a Seattle adventure-travel company formerly owned by Scott Fischer, one of the guides who died on Mount Everest in the 1996 season recounted in Jon Krakauer’s best-selling book “Into Thin Air.”
Boskoff and her husband bought Mountain Madness in 1997, just months after founder Fischer died on Everest. Two years later, Boskoff’s husband died.
Clearly Mountain Madness is cursed—it’s the freakin’ Hope Diamond of adventure-travel companies.
Madness, indeed.
jonny322
or climbing mountains is hard and you might die
I mean I think climbing extremely tall mountains is madness. I'll never fully understand why people do it.
Coincidentally, last night at a lounge I was hanging out at, they were showing the Discovery Channel on their TV (closed captioned and muted so we could hear the jazz band)... and they aired an episode from a series on climbers of Mt Everest, and the episode shown was a guide begging a group on walkie talkie to turn around 350 ft from the summit because they did not have enough oxygen to get there and make it back alive.
I just wouldn't dare try to climb such a mountain. I'll leave that risk to those who really want it.
What is madness is people thinking mountain climbing is so crazy when you are way more likely to get killed while driving a vehicle than climbing a mountain. Accidents happen in the mountains but they can happen everywhere, to anyone.
Its a dangerous passion i can't
newer watched them while they
climing on a mountain but i all
ways pray their safe return ho-
me.Becouse their contribution
to our society our world.We get
to know the unreacheable moun-
tains.And the people,countrys
we get to see fantastic pictur-
es.
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