>>364071I can't tell you to watch a documentary on the Mount Koussi, I doubt there's any. Few people go there. I guess you could watch a documentary about the average African shithole, and then imagine that up a mountain.
I mean, let's look back at the risks:
- extreme heat
- extreme cold
- two hours transition between -30°C and +45°C
- sunburns
- sandstorms that ruins your gear
- rainstorms
- snowstorms
- avalanches
- malaria
- earthquakes
- lack of oxygen
- climbing without any route
- no water for kilometers
- islamic rebels roaming around
- no GPS nor accurate positioning
- throat hemmoragia
- no one to help you
And
>>364065 is indeed right, we spent two months there, and we did have to climb most of it to shorten the trip, otherwise it would have taken us maybe six months on foot only, though there are still some 50° slopes you can't avoid.
I'm a mountaineer first and foremost, and I climbed quite a lot of peeks, so I know full well what I'm talking about. The amount of preparation we all went through was far beyond anything we had done before, there's a lot more actual climbing on >90° surfaces without any anchor point or rope, the transition from the cold night to the hot day can kill you, and takes a lot of time to get used to, and we had to train for months to walk and climb in anaerobic and dehydrated conditions, along with apnea training, so we could climb to the top without oxygen as you can't carry it for that long anyway.
Believe me, this place is hell.
