How many NOLS courses should they have taken? How long should they have worked in a gear store? How hard must they lead? How many parties should they have held up on Outer Space while trying to booty a cam with the tool?
I thought pillaging involved taking things away.
Ya, leaving junk would be more like Xmasing than pillaging.
"Happy Birthday Everest! We brought you these oxygen cylinders!"
By the numbers
# of ascents of Da Toof: millions
# of ascents of Everest: thousands
# of ascents of all 14 8000m peaks: 13 with Al Hinkes' completion last week
# of redpoint ascents of Realization: 3
# of solo ascents of Astroman: 2
# of climbers to complete Southern Pickets Traverse: 3
# of climbers to climb Back of Beyond Buttress : 2
# of humans to travel to Mars: 0
# of humans to make free ascents of The Nose: 1
If the North and South Poles are the first two poles, and Everest is the "third pole", then what is the "difficulty pole"? Olympus Mons without oxygen or booster rockets?
You can't rap down a doubled rope with a GriGri very easily, can you? Not to mention carrying two extra draws and a rap device up your "proj" might totally wreck your gram-conscious redpoint burn!