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Originally Posted by in_vino_vomitus
Just to throw a mountaineering example into the mix - on a clear day on the summit of K2 the horizon is about 200 miles away
Shame I'll never get there  |
Heck, a good number of people who DO get there don't get there. There's no safe way up K2. If it wants to kill you (and much of the time it does) you're just dead. There's no mitigating hazards on that mountain. You just roll the dice and hope it doesn't come up snake eyes. If you made it, it isn't because you're better than the guys who didn't. It just means you were foolhardy but lucky.
It's much cheaper to juggle vials of nitroglycerin and you have a little bit more control with the nitro.
We had a guy on Subsim who walked across Antarctica, from one shore to the opposite and through the pole. That dwarfs any mountain climb in sheer human exertion and tolerance for pain. I'm glad someone did it, but have no desire to try something like that myself.