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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jan 10, 2008 - 05:05pm PT
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WTF is a "simulated high altitude tent"?
And wasn't Aconcagua already climbed by a mule?
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Scared Silly
Trad climber
UT
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Jan 10, 2008 - 06:18pm PT
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That raises the pressure which lowers the affective altitude - ie a hyperbaric chamber. The tent he was using is one where they hop in and pump hypobaric air to simulate the lower partial pressure of O2 found at altitude.
http://www.mounteverest.net/old-news/newspages/hypoxicoI.htm
As for what I was doing at age eleven - seems I remember something about dropping grasshoppers down the girls shirts and making them scream.
As for kid doing the climb - hopefully his brain continues to develop while he subjects it to hypoxic air. Otherwise who gives a flying fuuck. Maybe it is time to send a letter to his sponsors that people are getting tired of this "first" crap.
Of course I have always said that I will help support the first unsupported nude snow board traverse to the south pole - but only if they sing god save the queen along the way.
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marky
climber
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Jan 10, 2008 - 06:32pm PT
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congratulations on climbing a meaningless pile of choss, young man
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho
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Jan 10, 2008 - 06:35pm PT
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Didn't Michael Jackson used to sleep in one of those?
Oh, and good on the kid for having a vision and chasing it.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jan 10, 2008 - 06:51pm PT
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Yeah, good for him.
(as long as he didn't have to sleep in THAT one)
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 10, 2008 - 06:58pm PT
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"Oh, and good on the kid for having a vision and chasing it."
The more I read his stuff (on the lad's web site) the more I wonder if he is not much more than a pawn for his dad. Sorta a Jessica Simpson/Joe Simpson relationship but with smaller boobs.
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Fluoride
Trad climber
Hollywood, CA
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Jan 10, 2008 - 07:07pm PT
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I agree ihateplastic. The kid seems like his "passion" is pretty parental driven.
"He hopes to become the youngest person to climb the highest peaks on the seven continents. Indeed, he plans to finish the Seven Summits quest by climbing Mt. Everest before his sixteenth birthday. This is his web site: www.jordanromero.com "
One of these days one of these kids trying to be the "youngest person to..." is gonna die. I remember that guy who pushed his daughter to take flight lessons at age 6 so she could be the youngest person to fly cross country.
She died a year later when her plane crashed while she was trying to break the record.
What ever happened to playing kickball and just being a kid?
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jan 10, 2008 - 08:05pm PT
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I was thinking the same thing IHP.
Seen it too many times.
Good on the kid for making it, but you gotta wonder who's behind the spray.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jan 10, 2008 - 08:35pm PT
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No really, the kid had 11 paper routes to pay for his plane ticket and Marmot down suit.
(I wonder if he liked the Chilean wine?)
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hoipolloi
climber
A friends backyard with the neighbors wifi
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Jan 10, 2008 - 10:03pm PT
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or the Chilean girls...
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ChoochCharlie
Trad climber
South East PA
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Jan 11, 2008 - 12:36am PT
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I don't see the big deal. ;)
http://www.camp4.com/news/offroute.php?newsid=539
A golden retriever, outfitted with boots, goggles, and a snowsuit, scaled the western hemisphere’s highest peak last week.
The two-year-old Rubia, who had been training to climb 22,834-foot Aconcagua since she was seven months old, conquered the Argentinean peak as part of a study on how rescue dogs function at high altitude.
The dog’s human companions, Spanish climbers Carlos Valverde and Marc Ortega, fed the four-footed climber a special diet and rubbed cream into her paws to prevent injuries.
“The dog would react and recover better than we would,” one of Rubia’s fellow climbers told the BBC.
While animals aren’t usually allowed on the mountain, officials made an exception for Rubia because of her participation in the rescue animal study. The golden retriever was roped to Valverde and Ortega for the entire climb.
Rubia may not have been the first canine climber to reach the summit. Nearly a decade ago, the Argentinean newspaper Clarin reported that a stray dog was accompanied a group of Austrian and German climbers to the top.
News courtesy Outside Online.
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Tan Slacks
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Jan 11, 2008 - 12:38am PT
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Wow, You all have some pretty acidic stuff to say about two close friends of mine.
I have watched Jordan since he was a toddler and he has always been driven. He has an incredibly active mind and body. Spend any amount of time with Jordan and you will be impressed. He and my daughter are the same age and thier love of life and this planet makes me jealous to be young again. To a certain extent what child does not share thier parents ideals. My daughter wants to vote the same way I do and she wants to climb all the same peaks I have. She is a kid after all. Paul is an amazing athlete, so why wouldn't his son aspire to follow in his fathers footsteps.
I don't want to defend them, they make thier own choices. I just wanted to remind you that they are just people with good and bad intentions, like you and I.
I wish them safe journeys and I wish us all the desire to wake each day to follow our dreams.
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dlew308
Boulder climber
CA
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Jan 11, 2008 - 11:25am PT
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Good for jordan and his family
At least his family is doing stuff as a family and being active.
Too many kids nowadays sit around getting fat and lazy.
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Broken
climber
Texas
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Jan 11, 2008 - 01:54pm PT
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The kid should have gone for a route on the south face...
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Jan 11, 2008 - 02:13pm PT
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In 1940, Pioneer climber Juan Jorge Link and his wife, Adrienne Bance (the first woman to climb Aconcagua), reached the summit with their dog FIFI. Link summited the mountain four times, always with his dog. On his fifth attempt, the couple disappeared never to be found.
In 1945, the expedition that placed the first argentinian female Nelly Noller on top of Aconcagua, found Fifi's frozen body few meters away from the top.
Over the last 15 years, dogs that follow muleteers or mule drivers (arrieros in spanish), that carry expedition's gear and supplys to Plaza de Mulas BC, often follow climbers all the way to the top
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Shingle
climber
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Jan 11, 2008 - 04:08pm PT
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"To a certain extent what child does not share thier parents ideals. My daughter wants to vote the same way I do and she wants to climb all the same peaks I have. She is a kid after all. Paul is an amazing athlete, so why wouldn't his son aspire to follow in his fathers footsteps. "
Just like JonBenet Ramsey. .
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Jan 11, 2008 - 11:02pm PT
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Yeah Scared Silly! This definitely helps a bit more on the Homefront...
Student, 11, helping to get food to homeless
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Shingle
climber
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Jan 11, 2008 - 11:31pm PT
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And no self-aggrandizing website. Hear hear!
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