By Steve Bell
The will to face on best of the top element on each one of the seven continents has fired the mind's eye of mountain climbing fans from around the world. of entirety of this remarkable feat, referred to as the Seven Summits, calls for a lot of the climber from touring to distant destinations to dealing with severe climate to mountaineering many of the most threatening mountains on this planet. Seven Summits offers a compelling and private examine the heroism of those climbers and the mountains that encouraged them.
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The biggest hurdle there looks like refueling in Antarctica, and to solve that we have a handful of possibilities …” Twenty minutes nonstop. This guy must think he's chairing a board meeting. “… and so we could do the seven climbs in that order. But I still think we should climb Elbrus right away, for practice. Then go back to it later, if we want to do them all in a row in one year. -Soviet relations and we can't get back into Russia we'll have it under our belts. I think we can get the Elbrus permit arranged in three weeks.
You mean this? ” “Yeah, it's a big one all right. ” Frank tried again, and fell again. The third time he made it, but he looked very awkward. When we finally reached the top he had several nasty scrapes on the backs of his hands, his knees were bleeding and he had what climbers call sewing machine leg, meaning his legs were vibrating as fast as a needle on a Singer. But he also had a wall-to-wall smile. “I’m glad as hell you made me stick to it. ” “Not really, I suppose. They're all mostly walk-up snow slopes with ice axes and crampons.
A deal was struck and Wheeler started to investigate what it would take to organize climbs to the other peaks. It was while researching that idea that Wheeler remembered this Dick Bass fellow he had met at the Dallas party a couple of months earlier, the one who had said he was going to climb McKinley. Thinking he might be a good source of information on that peak, Wheeler called Dick and was astonished to learn that Dick had the same fantasy about climbing the highest mountain on each continent.