To: Mr. Brightside
I don't get it....there are other exciting pastimes that test ones mettle
There was a Surgeon from Texas that was on a special on Everest. He lost all fingers and toes due to frostbite. But he conquered Everest! I repeat, I don't get it.
3 posted on
05/26/2006 6:02:54 AM PDT by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: Vaquero
It doesn't make sense to me either. Why would someone destroy his career just to climb a mountain?
7 posted on
05/26/2006 6:09:26 AM PDT by
BW2221
To: Vaquero
I don't get it....there are other exciting pastimes that test ones mettle
There was a Surgeon from Texas that was on a special on Everest. He lost all fingers and toes due to frostbite. But he conquered Everest! I repeat, I don't get it.
Answered well here in post two
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1636848/posts
Remember: these people climb mountains,
they are the most self absorbed bastards in the world.
9 posted on
05/26/2006 6:13:31 AM PDT by
Vision
(Newt/Pence '08)
To: Vaquero
There was a Surgeon from Texas that was on a special on Everest. He lost all fingers and toes due to frostbite. But he conquered Everest! I repeat, I don't get it. He also lost his nose and his ears.
BUT HE CONQUERED EVEREST!!! YIPEEE!!!
And I'm sure he hopes to someday become the first fingerless, toeless, noseless, earless man to climb Mt. Everest.
12 posted on
05/26/2006 6:32:10 AM PDT by
P-Marlowe
(((172 * 3.141592653589793238462) / 180) * 10 = 30.0196631)
To: Vaquero
>>>There was a Surgeon from Texas that was on a special on Everest. He lost all fingers and toes due to frostbite. But he conquered Everest! I repeat, I don't get it.>>>
So he can't practice the profession that took 12 years to achieve, but he can cling to "Conquering Everest"?
I don't get it either.
15 posted on
05/26/2006 6:54:13 AM PDT by
sandbar
To: Vaquero
"There was a Surgeon from Texas that was on a special on Everest. He lost all fingers and toes due to frostbite. But he conquered Everest! I repeat, I don't get it."
I don't get it either. Especially considering how often rescuers risk their lives to perpetually pluck these people off that mountain.
To: Vaquero
There was a Surgeon from Texas that was on a special on Everest. He lost all fingers and toes due to frostbite. But he conquered Everest! I repeat, I don't get it. You may have an unnatural attachment to your fingers and toes. You might want to seek counseling. :-)
26 posted on
05/26/2006 8:08:31 AM PDT by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
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