"Gary" wrote in message
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John Cairns wrote:
"Bob Crantz" wrote in message
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Sailing is similar to mountaineering except there is little requirement
for
fitness. Sailors don't have to lug a week or more worth of gear plus wet
climbing ropes up and down glacial valley walls on their back. Sailors
have
air conditioners, heaters, stoves, ovens, boom boxes, wardrobe closets,
showers, a place to sleep without sharp rocks or rats, etc.
Amen!
Otoh, when you go to sleep, the mountain doesn't slam up and down and
make
the most godawful racket.
Amen!
John Cairns
I venture to say that Ellen MacArthur is one of the fittest and toughest
people on the planet. Extreme sailing is all that extreme climbing is.
Horizontal Everest!
search: reinhold messner, there isn't much of a comparison.
Gaz