{"id":423,"date":"2003-05-16T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-16T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/05\/16\/"},"modified":"2003-05-16T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-16T17:57:00","slug":"423","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/05\/16\/423\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting website: Mt Everest History and facts<\/a> – just all the basic stats for Mt. Everest climbs. It’s amazing what human beings do and can<\/i> do once someone proves it’s possible, like the 4-minute mile that everyone thought was impossible, and now is practically expected. <\/p>\n\n\n
\"Because<\/a><\/td>\nEverest was ‘summitted’ for the first time in recorded history in May of 1953, and since then, we’ve gotten to where there’s close to 200 people a year making it up there, including a blind guy, and a guy with one arm! Some people have skied or snowboarded down now, and one guy came down in 11 minutes on a hang glider. All of this is just further evidence for why I frequently say, ‘what won’t these pathetic, crazy, hairless monkey-creatures think of to do next?’<\/p>\n

I’ve actually become aware of this page only because we publish a tape by the blind guy, Eric Weihenmayer, called Touch the Top of the World<\/i>, available on our website at Audio Editions<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Don’t let these stats fool you though – in the best<\/i> year, fully 1\/16th of the people who tried to summit died on the mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting website: Mt Everest History and facts – just all the basic stats for Mt. Everest climbs. It’s amazing what human beings do and can do once someone proves it’s possible, like the 4-minute mile that everyone thought was impossible, and now is practically expected. Everest was ‘summitted’ for the first time in … <\/p>\n

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