Re:Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest
by brandonkm on Monday December 15, 2008 @02:02AM
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After reading this article I would like to know what kind of training climbers engage in before climbing Mount Everest. It seems to me that at the types of elevations Mount Everest is working with, the preparation you would need beforehand would be quite intense. Not only that, but the technology you would need to offset whats happening to your body at those heights would be interesting to investigate as well.
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Re:Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest
by brandnewlow on Monday December 15, 2008 @02:17AM
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I'd always understood that a lot of the deaths on Everest were the result of wealthy people not preparing properly for the climb. If you've seen the IMAX Everest movie, you see the incredible shape that team was in...and they still had a hard go of it. I imagine attempting in anything less than exquisite physical condition is asking for trouble.
Mogens Jensen's training regimen can be found here:
http://www.gsk.com/people/mogens/training.htm
That said, he was an asthmatic attempting to climb without O2.
I attended a lecture several years ago by a photographer who has climbed Mt. Everest several times. He said his usual workout was a long session on a stair climber machine, set to maximum difficulty.