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Apologies for my ignorance, but, do you mean that this lady was unfit for the climb? I’m presuming a hike is not mountaineering?
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Yes. If what the Guardian wrote about her a few days ago is true, then she had no business to be on that mountain. Kili and Elbrus are long walks over a period of days in challenging altitude conditions .
To be fair, they did say that she was also an accomplished marathon runner who had been conditioning herself for Everest for six years. Just seemed very odd that they chose two walks to explain her mountaineering experience.
Possible it was a journalistic error, but stood out to me as weird.
If you have enough money, they'll take pretty much anybody up Everest.
Stonehedge
One of the deaths last week was a lady who's previous mountaineering experience was the hikes up Elbrus and Kilimanjaro. Unless the press have got it wrong, it's insane that she was accepted on a guided climb of Everest. Utterly bonkers. I think it's probably time for the Everest Package Holiday to be a thing of the past.