If Mount Everest was 100,000 feet instead of 29,028 feet above sea level would anyone reach the summit?

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4 years ago 05/30/2019 2:57am EDT

re: Banana Bread

Banana Bread wrote:
Maybe if we allow the people building the hotels to wear the space suits but don't let the actual climbers wear a space suit and see how high they can go. I know it would take a long time to get the building materials up and many millions too. I never said it was easy. People have mentioned hotels been made on the moon or Mars so if we can do something that extreme then surely building them on a big mountain on Earth should be possible. To all the people giving serious answers thank you for your kind support. I'm glad the thread has raised interesting discussions. To all the people calling me stupid, look in the mirror. You are the most important tribe on letsrun.

I know an engineer. He's got his engineering license.

4 years ago 05/30/2019 4:14am EDT

re: Banana Bread

OP is the self-proclaimed survival expert from the missing yoga teacher on Hawaii thread - sigh

4 years ago 05/30/2019 4:17am EDT

re: Proust

Proust wrote:
You're pushing blood around that has hardly any oxygen in it. The brain will shut off.

Sometimes I think BB posts from the Death Zone of Everest.

4 years ago 05/30/2019 4:57am EDT

re: collie

collie wrote:
This article, although it means well, doesn't do a fantastic job of explaining what is going on. The maximum height of a mountain on earth is a function of the crustal thrust pressure (how strongly two continental plates are colliding) which pushes up and gravity which pushes down. When heated to a moderate temperature (e.g. the deep crust) and subjected to a significant, sustained stress, rocks undergo plastic deformation and they flow. They are still solid, with a very high viscosity, and so this deformation is imperceptibly slow. But it does happen over geological timescales.
And so back to a taller 'Everest'. Lets say that this mountain is 100,000 ft above sea level. This would exert an outrageously large compressive stress on the base at sea level. While the bulk of the rock above sea level would be too cold to undergo creep deformation, at some depth in the crust directly beneath the mountain the geotherm will be at a temperature where this can happen. The mountain would sink, forcing crustal rock to flow sideways as if you made a stack of chocolate bars on a hot oven tray.
In reality the maximum mountain height on Earth is approximately where Everest is now. The volume movement from crustal creep is approximately equal to the rate of upthrust. It can't physically grow that much taller.
Fascinating stuff!

Someone who got it.

4 years ago 05/30/2019 9:14am EDT

re: Banana Bread

Oooh, thought provoking question. A better question: If Everest were 50hundredthousandgazillion feet high would anyone be able to hike it?

4 years ago 05/30/2019 10:14am EDT

re: Proust

Proust wrote:
Everest itself yields the limit: the death zone. It's in and out before you start dying on a cellular level. You don't have much time.
Your blood is hardly oxygenated. Hemoglobin thickens your blood, making it harder for the heart to pump blood around the body until your circulation comes to a crawl. You're pushing blood around that has hardly any oxygen in it. The brain will shut off.

Hemoglobin does not thicken your blood, but lots of bad things happen to the body.

I don't know nothing about mountain climbing. wrote:
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Is that a accurate list? I don't know nothing about mountain climbing.

You can look at the list of 8000m peaks (of which there are 14), and see number of ascents and %death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-thousander

Everest is about 5700 ascents with 3.9% death rate.

Annapurna I has 191 ascents with 31% death rate.

I would say that Annapurna I is way harder than Everest.

Interestingly, the first person to climb all 14 is also the first person to climb all 14 without supplementary Oxygen. (Reinhold Messner)

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