In case you didn't belive us on this, here's the mainstream media finally getting over Everest. Well, ok, maybe it's just one guy at the Seattle times, but it's a start:
This year's summiteers included a 71-year-old Japanese man and an 18-year-old incoming Stanford freshman, Samantha Larson, whose ascent completed her conquest of the fabled Seven Summits — almost before she was old enough to vote.
The mountain has been climbed by people who are legally blind, missing various limbs and inflicted with various incurable diseases. It's been climbed in 8 hours, 10 minutes, from base camp by a Sherpa veteran, and climbed 17 times by another expert Sherpa climber.
People have been married on the summit, helicopters have successfully landed there, and the great peak has been descended by skis, snowboard and parasail. As far as we know, it hasn't been climbed and descended by a headless man on a unicycle, but check back with us again this time next year.
Bottom line: There's nothing worth doing on Everest that hasn't already been done. If you want to seek global acclaim in the man-vs.-nature department, don't pack away all that ambition. Just channel it toward a more creative venue.
What? Everything has been done? He evidently hasn't been following Conrad's climb of Everest in capri pants.
When you're skiing in the Himalayas and China instead of Europe in 5 years you'll probably have forgotten where you first heard about it. GoBlog, damn it, GoBlog. Burn that into your memory so you never forget. The $350 million 
