Mountaineering, among the things I don't do

[lakmiseiru]

I really should know better than to sit up late at night and read Wikipedia articles about dead mountaineers, Himalayan mountaineering disasters, and so on. This is probably the second or third time I've done it in as many years, and I regret it each time; even in the middle of going through the 20-some articles about it, I pause and shudder and

Comments

[nakor]

Well, statistically, that's very likely on a killer mountain.

You don't read the story of the last person from $X :: COUNTRY who died on the ascent before the first person from $COUNTRY made it, or of the N people who died on the ascent between the first and second persons.

See also Roger Bannister: look at the record he set, how long it stood, and how long the previous record had stood.