Mt. Everest Hikings

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I enjoy hiking and have in fact done many hikes around Oregon. I have had experience in the grueling hours put in everyday to get to a new camp and then have to eat freeze dried food. Granted the food’s not half bad. But to think about climbing a mountain as vast as Mt. Everest and eating that everyday until return, makes me want to cry. My hikes have not gotten below the temperature of 20 degrees fahrenheit nor have they been too windy, but they have no doubt been tiring. As I hear stories of climbers of the great Mt. Everest, it baffles me what man will sacrifice to defeat a mountain just for the love of it . Not feeling limbs do to numbness and the extreme exhaustion sounds bitterly terrible, let alone the lack of oxygen, causing coughing

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