Everest Beyond the limit: Episode 2

Episode 2:Standing on the shoulders of the giants

people claim Everest, But Its the sherpas who are the first up there , they go in, lay the safety ropes to the summit, yet we never hear about them.One argument that comes instantly is what about intent?, its cause of these expeditions that the sherpas summit it, without expeditions these sherpas wont be going up Everest. I mean Everest was there, Sherpas were there. Yet it took an English survey to discover Everest to be the highest. It took a NewZealander to be on top and before him numerous other summit attempts. The sherpas never thought along those lines, they were happy praying to their Everest God, the Sagarmatha. The Sherpas look forward to the expeditions every season as a plump job.Its the Discovery Channel which produced "Everest Beyond the Limit", which told the story and to their credit acknowledged the job of the Sherpas. But its their story, there is bound to be bias.If you don't like it tell your story...

Truth can be quite inconvenient when dissected to its bare essentials, thats the way life is in many ways. The devil lies in the details and ignorance quite often is bliss.But then lets not be so cynical.These are teh characters who are going up.

Mogenes Jensen, is from Denmark a country with no mountains, his Everest training consisted of trekking 10 miles a day with 150 pounds of water as weight. He has chronic asthma and plans to do the summit without bottled oxygen. Wants to send out a message to other people sufferring from asthma that "even the summit of Everest is not out of reach, even without bottled oxygen"

George Borat: A 62 year Frenchman, had one of his cancerous kidney removed through his guts rather than his back to allow him to carry mountain gear and that was just 2 months back.

Mark Inglis: had both his legs amputated in an earlier summit attempt in New-Zealand and is now attempting Everest on carbon fibre legs.He is carrying a spare 'leg' cause one of his 'legs' broke during acclimatization climbs.

Tim Medvetez:had a near fatal bike accident. Now metal screws hold his structure together, He is 6 foot five and its a real pain to haul up that massive structure.He says "The doctors telling you that you cant do this cant do that, but thats what motivates me , someone says you cant do something".Well for me this is the essence of life, the spirit.

The summit attempt is now a go in 12 hours.Each step is an eternity, each breath a battle.

"Standing on the shoulders of the giants", the expedition members stand on the sherpas and I stand on top of the expedition members. You guys give me a lot of strength.