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14yo boy to climb Everest 10-Dec-2004 At 2:08:55 PM Breezy

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On 10/12/2004 Richard wrote:
>Yeah, that girl sprung to mind. I'd like to know how a 14 year old boy
>could decide on his own to climb everest .. sounds like a lot of parental
>influnece to me....

Not really ask any 14 year old who is active and fit if they wanna climb everest, sail round the world solo, etc and i reckon a lot more will say yes for personal reasons than parental influence.
That said, i beleive most "would want to" do it in theory, get them on the mount and they probably would need large amounts of parental influence to continue.
Most people on this forum would have been in a position to seriously shit themselves on a 10 - 100m route, hows a 14 year old gonna cope on a 8,000m route when the shit hits the fan or for that matter the frostbite hits his toes ?