Loading ...At close to 14 000 feet and with seabed locations close to Hawaii as deep as 18 000 feet , we’re talking over 30 000 feet elevation difference . Six miles !
In the late 1960’s I hiked to a ridge at 12 600 feet , and could only climb a few feet without a break to catch my breath as I neared the summit* . Yours , at a thousand feet higher , would be impossible for me to climb even 50 years ago.
* but at the peak was an old man , age 86 – a Mr. Oviatt who had made the climb every year since 1936 except for the year before .
” why didn’t you make it last year ?”
Mr. O “Because my doctor said my heart could not take it.”
” And this year ?”
Mr. O ” I didn’t go to the doctor.”
True story !