[FPSPACE] If people spend $70,000 to climb Mount Everest...

[LARRY KLAES]

To paraphrase Tom Hanks in the film A League of Their Own, if it was easy then anybody could do it.  And then it wouldn't be a grand adventure (I added that last sentence).

Larry

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Oberg<mailto:joberg at houston.rr.com> 
  To: fpspace at friends-partners.org<mailto:fpspace at friends-partners.org> ; LARRY KLAES<mailto:ljk4 at msn.com> 
  Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 1:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] If people spend $70,000 to climb Mount Everest...



  I thougt that only little more than 1000 had summitted, in total -- but certainly, many more climb ON Everest every year without reaching the top (or even intending to). That's how astronaut Karl Henize died, as you recall. 

  And hundreds of people -- exact figure uncertain -- have died there, including Karl -- another potential analog to space tourism.


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: LARRY KLAES<mailto:ljk4 at msn.com> 
    To: fpspace<mailto:fpspace at friends-partners.org> 
    Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 9:39 AM
    Subject: [FPSPACE] If people spend $70,000 to climb Mount Everest...


    Why not spend a few more to fly into space - if you can afford it, of course.  And over one thousand people climb the tallest mountain on Earth every year now, when just over 50 years ago only 2 had done it.

    http://www.everestnews.com/<http://www.everestnews.com/>

    Larry




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