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Nope. If his parents are willing to allow it, and he wants to do it, what business is it of anyone else's.
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BBC News - US boy Jordan Romero, 13, in Mount Everest bid
Messed up. Do you think social services should reserve the right to step in and bring this to a halt?
Do 1 in 10 people who rodeo die from doing it?
All power to him. I love hiking, and wish I were as much a prolific hiker at he is, and he's only 13!
I'll play devil's advocate here and say that calling climbing Mount Everest 'hiking' is quite the understatement.
The kid is basically signing his death though. Isn't it the job of social services to ensure child safety? Isn't this negligence? Just wondering...im eager to hear what you have to say.
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BBC News - US boy Jordan Romero, 13, in Mount Everest bid
Messed up. Do you think social services should reserve the right to step in and bring this to a halt?
I'll play devil's advocate here and say that calling climbing Mount Everest 'hiking' is quite the understatement. It is like calling the disgustingly macho yet so homoerotic performances of UFC 'fighting'.
Except it is fighting. What do you call it then, when two men punch and kick each other in anger?
That's the number of successful attemts divided by the number who dies. Of course you can't use that number because it doesn't show the risk of a random person attemting to climbing mount everst and end up dying.The death rate as late as 2006 remained 1 in 10.
BBC NEWS | Health | Concern over Everest death rate
Of the summits listed in the article that the boy has climbed, only 2 are technical routes, McKinley and Carstenz Pyramid, and both of those are considerably shorter than Everest. That said, if he were an adult, he certainly would be considered fit to climb Everest.
The problem is that as a parent you can't just allow your kid to take any risk. You don't own your kids, they are not your property. So it seems there are some ethical and legal questions here.
Also, the question in the thread title doesn't match the question in the poll, I almost ticked the wrong box.
To answer the thread title: Yes, he absolutely should be allowed to climb Mr Everest as long as his parents are with him.
To answer the actual question in the poll: NO, social services has no business getting involved in this situation.
Mount Everest has been made into a trash heap by all these climbers, what's one more?
You mean what's one more frozen body?
No, I mean all the trash and debris that these climbers leave behind. They are a bunch of reckless idiots with no respect for the environment.
The only real mountain men there are the Sherpa guides...
I know, I was just adding my own twist.
I'll play devil's advocate here and say that calling climbing Mount Everest 'hiking' is quite the understatement. It is like calling the disgustingly macho yet so homoerotic performances of UFC 'fighting'.