Talk:Ger McDonnell

To Achieve a Summit
"To me the only way you achieve a summit is to come back alive. The job is half done if you don't get down again". John Mallory —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.70.211.207 (talk) 14:26, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Well the article says "reach" - which he did. Whatever more you can expect him to achieve is not really an issue. --➨♀♂ Candlewicke STundefined 19:24, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

The top discussion piece is a quotation from John Mallory, son of famous George Mallory. As I believe George Mallory was the first person to summit Everest, but not to successfully climb Everest. No disrespect to Ger and his amazing feat of reaching the summit of K2 but the mountain is still up for grabs for an Irish person to successfully climb it (summit and survive). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.41.150.189 (talk) 15:20, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

K2, like all mountains, remains "up for grabs" for all who wish to challenge themselves, whatever nationality. The idea is certainly to survive thereafter, and go on to further challenges; nevertheless the obsession with nationality and definition of "summit" only distracts from the efforts and accomplishments of those who live in the spirit of the mountain, who live for the pursuit as much as for the accomplishment, and climb with an ethic that transcend summits. Steveozone (talk) 00:59, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

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