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John Kazanas summits Everest 28-May-2010 At 12:21:54 PM cruze

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Look, personally I tend to agree and value the "journey" more than the "destination". All I am saying is that there are others that do not value my "journey" nearly so highly, and choose a different journey.

In life more generally I find myself judging people way to quickly for not thinking like myself, and am trying and have been trying for some time now to stop doing that. I am trying to be more accepting of people's differences. That is why I am trying to point out that while we as a group of climbers value the technical climbing aspect of the achievement, there are those that would no sooner pay the first person to design a helicopter that is capable of dropping them on the summit to do so. That is their choice, and inevitably they would be able to claim just as validly to have stood on the summit of the world's highest peak as the person that has walked from the delta of the Ganges. I doubt they would get shouted a beer for it though...at least until they are 18.