Karen Sweeney

Subliminal.

So it's my fault, you know.

But yeah, I have read all the books.

And, you know, Joe Simpson, you know, the one where he had to crawl...

back to base camp and that this wasn't, this wasn't an Everest, but I've read Touching the Void.

That was his book.

And I've read Into Thin Air by John Krakauer.

I've watched all the movies, you know, so I feel, you know, I know all the awful things that can go wrong, you know, but, but you know what?

I mean, the success rate in, in Everest is actually not, not so bad at all.

He's done more dangerous mountains already.

So, you know, and he only tells me about that when he gets home though, you know, when I get the pictures then.

Yeah, because the equipment's got better, you know, and people are better, yeah, they're better equipped and they're better trained as well.

You're always going to get people who are going to go up there who aren't prepared and it's just like on a bucket list or whatever.

But, you know, you've got to be smart and you've got to do it properly.

I mean, they're going to be in base camp now for probably the guts of six weeks.

They're waiting for a weather window.

They've gone up early as well, you know,

so that they get prepared earlier than other teams.

You know, and it's all about the preparation.

It's so, so, so important.