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“The Everest article doesn’t mention the weather, but I’m guessing whether there was any wind blowing would have a lot to do with the feasibility of that stunt — it makes a huge difference in cold conditions.”

Good question, and I hadn’t thought about that.

“…But what summed it all up for me was this: no matter how scary the cold was supposed to be and how much bundling up � goggles, hood, gloves, parkas � they did, no one ever covered their lips. I kept staring at the exposed mouths and chins and wondering why no one had chapped or cracked lips when we�d been told the wind could freeze them instantly. I suspect it was to keep the stars recognizable and distinguishable, but for me, it was the last straw in realizing that the whole thing came out pretty dumb.”

Mr. Cranky Said when reviewing Vertical Limit:

“According to the film, the so-called ‘vertical limit’ is the altitude above which a human being cannot survive for very long. Until one of the characters actually explained that, I thought it was the altitude above which egotistical actors finally found it necessary to wear a hat.

“You can pretty much toss out the notion that this is going to be any sort of realistic mountain climbing movie once you realize that you can’t stuff an actor in a hooded parka and face shield and expect him to do anything other than demand to talk to his agent. Thus, Peter Garrett (Chris O’Donnell) and his mountain-climbing friends are wandering around the base camp of K-2 — at what one would presume is 17,000 or 19,000 feet — in regular clothes…”

Then again, there’s this:

someone at Reuters Said in “Sherpa Stands atop Everest Naked for 3 Minutes“:

“Nepali climbing guide Lakpa Tharke upset officials recently by standing on top of Mt. Everest naked. Nepal’s top mountaineering body head Ang Tshering Sherpa says ‘but if he did it, it is very shocking because Sagarmatha is the goddess mother.’

“Organizers of the climb he participated with did not seem bothered by the incident. ‘We are planning to file his extraordinary feat for the Guinness Book of World Records.’ He may be the first to pull off such a feat.

“Buddhists in Nepal consider Everest a god. On Saturday, the head of Nepal’s Mountaineering Association urged the government to take action against Tharke.”

Anyway, I do recommend the harrowing documentary film Everest and the book Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster that Jon Krakauer wrote after being up there during the tragedies during the filming.

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Mythbusters tackled this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi1_1l7M8FA