JUST FINISHED WATCHING THE MOVIE "EVEREST - The True Story of the 1996 Mount Everest Disaster that Killed Eight Climbers."
IT TAKES WEEKS TO GET TO THE TOP....STOPS ALONG THE WAY FOR YOUR BODY TO ACCLIMATIZE. WALKING ACROSS LADDERS PLACED ACROSS CREVASSES.
THE LAST 3,000 FEET KNOWN AS "THE DEATH ZONE" - A SLIDE OF A MILE AND THEN A DROP INTO A BOTTOMLESS CREVASSE, IF YOU MAKE A FATAL ERROR.
JUST ABOUT NO AIR UP AT 27 TO 29 THOUSAND FEET.
WINDS CAN COME UP OUT OF THE BLUE, AND TEMPERATURES COULD THEN GO AS LOW 100 BELOW ZERO.
150 PEOPLE HAVE DIED CLIMBING MOUNT EVEREST.
AS ONE MAN SAID, "THE HUMAN BODY WAS NOT DESIGNED TO LIVE UP HERE."
IT LEAVES ME NUMB WITH DISBELIEF THAT PEOPLE WOULD BE AS SILLY AND RECKLESS AS TO WANT TO CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST.
OBVIOUSLY THEY AIN'T CHRISTIANS READING THE BIBLE.
OUR BODIES ARE, THE NEW TESTAMENT SAYS, THE "TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT" SO DOING SUCH THINGS AS CLIMBING EVEREST WOULD BE A NO BRAINER FOR A TRUE CHRISTIAN..... YOU WOULD NOT THINK OF DOING IT!! SIMPLE AS THAT.
IT IS LIKE "FORMULA ONE" RACE CAR DRIVERS - TWO ARE KILLED EACH YEAR. SOME THINGS ARE JUST WAY TOO DANGEROUS TO DO JUST FOR THE "FUN OF IT" OR FOR SOME "PERSONAL EGO TRIP."
SUCH THINGS AS TRYING TO CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST IS JUST PLAIN CRAZY, SILLY, AND STUPID BEYOND ALL MEASURE.
THE ETERNAL GOD IS NOT PEASED WITH SUCH HUMAN FOLLY OF MIND.
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