Everest’s Twelve Truths
September 27, 2007
ExplorersWeb has put up an interesting article today discussing how the media covers Mt. Everest and also twelve little known facts about climbing the world’s tallest peak.
The reasonings behind this article is how the main stream media in 2007 jumped on four seperate stories that, in the end, proved false even though the correct information was out there.
I am guessing that this is going to be a three part series from ExWeb, as today’s article only goes to the fourth fact about Everest. It is definately interesting reading, including a couple of surprises.
Here are the first four facts. To get the statistics behind each and why they are relevent, check out Part I of The Twelve Truths of Everest.
- Truth 1: One out of three climbers who tried Everest reached the summit.
- Truth 2: The majority of ALL Everest climbers have not been a part of a commercial expedition.
- Truth 3: Guided expeditions have not been safer.
- Truth 4: Guided climbers as well as climbers on the South Side have had slightly higher summit success.
I think the most interesting of the first four facts has to be numbers 2 & 3. So much information is pushed out to the media by the commercial expeditions that most would assume that both of these statements couldn’t possibly be right.
I am looking forward to seeing the next two parts in this series and will be updating you when they are posted.
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Written by Jason A. Hendricks · Filed Under Mt. Everest |
These are quite interesting…
Says something about the need for accurate reporting.
DSD