[Archaea]

I don't understand the mentality of climbers.

Why attempt things without informing others what you intend to attempt?

I have not attempted anything very difficult, but it feels at least for me like this,

You start off okay, but feeling like you have too much gear and hope to get in form along the way.

You stop a few times to feel more comfortable. After a couple of hours, you begin to tire and begin eating stuff for energy, not because it tastes good.

Later on, your feet start hurting and if it involves inclement weather, you're cold, you begin wondering why you're not home in a warm bed making love instead far away on a desolate but beautiful mountain side with hours and hours of work left.

Depending how hard you have to work to sleep near a mountain top, you're tired, wet and hungry, but preparing food at altitude sucks. If you have any type of frostbite and arthritis, you really start to suffer. The wind starts to howl and you wish somebody could tuck you in. And above 11,000 feet you start to get headaches so you take some advil.

I can't imagine above 18,000 feet what it feels like.

Does that sound like fun?