![]() ![]() ![]() "Although I feel like I’m in much better shape this year than last, I’m also aware that only about 2/3 of those who attempt the summit are successful - and success rates are MUCH lower for old men like me. "Basically, I thought they were probably right (and) a sense of unfinished business prevailed - the business being getting an answer to the question of how far up the mountain would let me go," he wrote. Sugarman said he felt a "sense of closure and satisfaction" until he heard from climbing partners from the same trip that they had summitted the mountain and believed he would have made it, too. Doctor Who: The Second Earth Adventures Collection Terrance Dicks, John Lucarotti (and others) Doctor Who: The TV Episodes Collection Peter R. "I was even more certain that my serious Himalayan climbing days were over, as evidenced in part by the fact that I left my (very expensive) mountaineering boots with my Sherpa guide." "I was quite certain that I’d not be back," he wrote in an email to friends and family, which Maya Sugarman shared with USA TODAY. ![]() When Sugarman reached Camp 3 last year, he decided that his Everest itch was scratched. ![]()
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