Originally Posted by bobpickering
Originally Posted by Snacking Bear
Training for the New Alpinism by Authors House/Johnston
It's a small world. Steve House was my guide on Denali in 1995. An amazing guy, and he was only 24 at the time.

Bob refers to House as in House’s Chimney on K2. I have not been there!

Our rule of thumb numbers are just that, with plenty of individual variation.