>>14168623The triumph is the pleasure, triumph over the risk, defying the risk, not the actual physical experience of being cold and exhausted and delirious from being that high.
The only terrifying feeling is when there’s a ton of exposure where a mis step means a fall to your next carabiner or a permanent fall. When you’re really high you honestly don’t think about the fear. You just think one foot in front of the other, over and over amidst the delirium.
Its not high enough to see curvature. You need to be like 200 miles up to see proper curvature, not 5 miles.
Everest sucks. Pic related. K2 was brutal. Annapurna was technical as fuck.
