Farewell to a great explorer

porphy · 01-10-08, 06:29 PM

That is mountaineering history right there.

I read his book about Everest a few years ago. He lived long, which is not that common among people that push it out on 8000+ peaks. Maybee I should have bought the mountain photograph signed by Hillary, which Doug Scott offered for 3000 sk on a lecture I heard last year.

To my mind Reinhold Messner and Peter Habler also did an amazing thing when they first climbed Everest without bottled oxygen in 1978. Recently I watched the documentary Everest: Unmasked. Great stuff, especially the moving pictures of Habler close to the summit. Never saw that before and it shows what that feat is about. And Reinholds hairstyle at the time is unmatched...

cheers

01-10-08, 06:29 PM	#1
porphy Commodore Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 603 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	That is mountaineering history right there. I read his book about Everest a few years ago. He lived long, which is not that common among people that push it out on 8000+ peaks. Maybee I should have bought the mountain photograph signed by Hillary, which Doug Scott offered for 3000 sk on a lecture I heard last year. To my mind Reinhold Messner and Peter Habler also did an amazing thing when they first climbed Everest without bottled oxygen in 1978. Recently I watched the documentary Everest: Unmasked. Great stuff, especially the moving pictures of Habler close to the summit. Never saw that before and it shows what that feat is about. And Reinholds hairstyle at the time is unmatched... cheers __________________ "The only remedy for madness is the innocence of facts." O. Mirbeu "A paranoid is simply someone in possession of all the facts." W. B.