From: martin@address-in-sig.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 20:18:26 -0600, Les Cargill wrote:   
      
   >> I read books, listen to radio and CDs etc., but never watch TV and   
   >> seldom see movies: the last I saw was "Everest"   
   >   
   > I sort of lost the point on that one - the obsession did not communicate   
   > well.   
   >   
   No obsession - just that it was indeed the last movie I've gone to see.   
   It was a rather well-made film about the 1996 cockup cum disaster on   
   Everest that killed 12 climbers including one of the climbing   
   organisers.  I wanted to see it because I've been to Nepal twice and have   
   seen Everest at dawn 2-3 times, though never from closer than 140km. The   
   combination of on-location filming and use of a very accurate CGI model   
   of the mountain gave me a far better understanding of how its climbed   
   than anything else I've seen or read, and of how easily things can go   
   wrong up there.   
      
   No, you wouldn't find me climbing it, but OTOH flying as P2 with Klaus   
   Ohlmann when he soared Everest in a Stemme VT10 TMG in 2014 would have   
   been a fabulous experience. Everest was his turnpoint for an out-and   
   return soaring flight from Pokara, 290km away, so all in all a fantastic   
   flight.   
      
      
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