[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by Archaea

And this is the problem with amateurs. We try something the experienced experts do, most often with their help, and then we believe we're experts, knowledgeable enough to be "experts" or to express opinions. I do it in cycling or triathlons, when in reality, I'm just an ignorant neophyte and in mountaineering I'm below that.

But from meeting with those who know stuff, they find Krackhead to be unbearable.

He is inconsistent and for Seattle to criticize B, however one spells his name, shows B has never been in a situation where one did all one could. It makes it sound as if Seattle has never been past the point of exhaustion. I cannot claim to have done what they have done, but I have been past the point of exhaustion in exercise, so I fault K for critiquing B in that situation. It is beyond amazing he would do that, as an amateur.

Krakauer is an experienced climber and was at the time of the Everest disaster.