Just wondering ?
2007-12-04 06:39:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Climbing
Yes. Definitly. It is called soloing and it has been done many times. Some people prefer it to roped climbing because of the thrill they get. In fact, the high alpine climbing grades signify that a fall 'will definitly result in death', rope or no rope.
People also climb with no oxygen as well, which is much the same thing.
2007-12-05 15:09:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It'd be possible. It would be crazy, but possible. Anything can be climbed without a safety rope. There's a chance that you'll fall, but then there's a chance you won't. A lot of Everests is just hiking. There are some scrambly bits and at parts sherpas have carried ladders and fixed them to the rock with rope. If you were to fall on some parts you'd possibly just get back up, slide a little and hopefuly stop yourself, then get back up, or possibly fall and either cripple yourself or just die. Like any climbing where the risk of falling presents the person with a very real chance of injury (lead climbing, soloing, bouldering without a mat or spotter) the knowledge of this possibility makes the climb even more difficult for the person, and so can even increase the risk of falling. Knowledge of this psycological factor can cause a person leading a route on a difficult move to sieze up. I've kind of strayed off the point here, but I thought you might find it interesting with the question you're asking.
Short answer: for a strong experienced climber, yes.
2007-12-04 11:19:36 · answer #2 · answered by garion b 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It wouldn't be practical - for speed and safety.
The reason isn't the climbing as much as it is the glacier travel. Anytime you are crossing a glacier, there are crevasses, openings in the snow which are often covered over by a layer of ice and snow making them impossible to see. When a climber falls in (the odds are very high that this will happen), the ropes prevent serious injury and speed recovery. This makes the team move faster which allows the climb to be successful.
2007-12-04 07:20:46 · answer #3 · answered by TahoeT 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Probably not. Ropes, ladders, etc. are necessary to establish a route through the Khumbu Icefall on the Nepalese side. Getting over up the Third Step on the Tibetan side requires a rope or the use of the ladder (which I think someone recently removed).
2007-12-04 11:04:11 · answer #4 · answered by Wayner 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your instructor is incorrect. Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler first climbed Everest without supplemental Oxygen in 1978. on condition that that factor, it has replace into the well-liked approach for climbers. Ed Visteurs from Seattle grew to become the 1st American to climb all the 8,000 meter peaks without suplemental oxygen some years lower back.
2016-10-19 03:48:04 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you gonna need a ladder for the ice fields.
2007-12-04 09:07:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you are either an AMAZING climping person, spiderman, completely insane or suicidal.. then yeah go ahead!
2007-12-04 06:48:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
maybe for some hardcore Sherpa, but very unlikely for anyone else.
2007-12-04 06:45:52 · answer #8 · answered by tuberk768 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋