[mike-cardwell]

Risking your life climbing a mountain is no more "living", than sitting at home with your family watching tv is. Romanticised bullshit.

If you enjoy doing something, do it. Don't do it so you can add it to your list of life experiences so you can pretend that you've lived a better life than somebody who hasn't done it.

[loewenskind]

I think what is required to even get the change to summit Everest weeds out any people who are just there so they can "pretend they've lived a better life".

[mike-cardwell]

I disagree. Most of the time when people do stuff like this, they do it just so they can tell other people that they've done it. They don't do it for the experience, they do it for the bragging rights.

Note, I'm not talking about everyone that does it, just most people.

[dasil003]

Dude, you are talking so far out your ass that your small intestine is showing.

[mike-cardwell]

Ok. Nobody ever does anything for bragging rights.

[pwhelan]

Not everything is binary. Other people have different motivations than you. Not everyone does an Ironman for bragging rights. Not everyone starts a company for bragging rights.

[mike-cardwell]

If you read my previous comment you will see I addressed exactly that.

"Note, I'm not talking about everyone that does it, just most people."