[wireman2004]

i know that we have a topic on the climb. But i thought if we have a seperate topic too congratulate chris, rachael and the kili climbers so that if aled could open this topic thread and possibly print them off for chris and rachael on their return.


As for me.

Congratulations. Chris rachael and the other climbers on a successful climb up the mountain. Your a insperation too all of us. And the 1 million plus raised will go along way too help africa and england for what they need. Once again. Congratulations chris and team.
Paul.

[asy1mpo]

Well done Chris (and everyone else).

Amazing and fantastic. You have helped raise loads of money.

Brilliant. (Ever more special when the "industry standard" success rate of getting to the peak is apparently 40%)

[Ezza]

Well done guys! Everyone is really proud of what you have achieved, and the money you have raised. Congrats!

[Blinko Glick]

Big claps and chuffedy do's for the Moyles & climbies.
Life obstacles are lowly when comparison to challenge is compared to.
The BG shall set forth to higherness from this instant.
Role models are you.

[Johnny 1989]

Well done to all involved, especially to Chris Moyles as he's proved his critics wrong.

[DannyBoy]

Poley Poley, Congratulations Chris and Rachel well done you two! And well done to the rest of the summit team!

Cant wait to see the documentary next Thursday night!

[Sunny So Cal]

I'm just pointing out that Chris (should he come on here) should go over to the "Climbing a Mountain!?" thread in "General" to read our thoughts/wishes as the team progressed. As well as our hearty congratulations.

[thee moomin hunter]

they walked up a hill, allbeit at a fair altitude, they didnt climb anything. i assume they had a back up team and a fair bit of training. its not all that.
Fair play to the money they raised though. Dont go thinking that they did an 'extreme' thing, remember these people a city/media types and a muddy shoe to them is a day outdoors
peace
out


BTW im not taking the piss, this is a fact

[MK Chris]

Have you ever done it?

You are not stating facts at all, you are stating your opinion. The 'fact' is that a very large percentage of people fail it. The 'fact' that the entire team, including camera folk and the works, made it up is remarkable.

[thee moomin hunter]

not as a feat of mountaineering it isnt. To be honest its the same as chris taking the piss out of local radio (as he does)In the climbing/mountaineering world, he has just got a job making tea and emptying the bins on local radio.

[DannyBoy]

they walked up a hill, allbeit at a fair altitude, they didnt climb anything. i assume they had a back up team and a fair bit of training. its not all that.
Fair play to the money they raised though. Dont go thinking that they did an 'extreme' thing, remember these people a city/media types and a muddy shoe to them is a day outdoors
peace
out


BTW im not taking the piss, this is a fact

19,330 ft does not equal a hill.

[TIAL]

Dont go thinking that they did an 'extreme' thing, remember these people a city/media types and a muddy shoe to them is a day outdoors

Internet toughguy.

You've just contradicted yourself. If 'a muddy shoe to them is a day outdoors' then surely climbing Mount Kilimanjaro is going to be 'extreme' for them? As extreme (if not moreso) than a professional climber doing what they do?

Tit.

[thee moomin hunter]

fair enough. i suppose i mean it would take as much skill to climb it as it would any hill. They would not have needed any technical skills, someone else would see to that. Awfully sorry that im basing my opinion on fact. Please remember they are just faces for a cause. what about the people that got chris, an unfit, smoking, curry eating, fat desk jockey up said hill. It wouldnt suprise me if someone carried him up

[thee moomin hunter]

TIAL, not really mate. look, its just not that hard, even for city types, if they wanted a real challenge why didnt they do some real climbing or mountaineering ie el cap, tough stuff in the alps, ffs some E numbers in the peak/lakes/wales etc

[TIAL]

Of course there are harder things to climb, but let's be honest they wouldn't have wanted to make it totally impossible for the climbers - and it would have been for anyone who hasn't had years of experience. Kilimanjaro was just about right - do-able but still bloody tough. It's easy to come to the conclusion in hindsight that since they all got up it must have been easy, but that's not the case given that there are usually people who drop out.
What you are suggesting is simply unreasonable.

[DannyBoy]

fair enough. i suppose i mean it would take as much skill to climb it as it would any hill. They would not have needed any technical skills, someone else would see to that. Awfully sorry that im basing my opinion on fact. Please remember they are just faces for a cause. what about the people that got chris, an unfit, smoking, curry eating, fat desk jockey up said hill. It wouldnt suprise me if someone carried him up

Basing your opinion on fact? again 19,330 ft does not equal a hill.

[MK Chris]

Though I was guilty of this in the first place, I'd like to warn:

I shouldn't have replied to be honest.

[thee moomin hunter]

i see your point but im just tired of fluffed up stuff, look, it was bigged up so much that most people think it must be hard. Ill give £100 to comic relief if the documentry isnt just celebs moaning and complaning. Bear in mind when they were having a wicked jolly and, for some people, a trip of a lifetime, most of us were at work.

[jocky85]

I'd rather have been at work that climbing 19,000 and sleeping in, at some point, below freezing temperatures. Give me a proper toilet over a rock anyday. But then I suppose I'm one of those 'city types' you mention, so I would say that. Oh, but wait, apparently that means I should find it easy? Because its not 'extreme' enough even though for people like me 'a muddy shoe is a day outdoors'

[Ed Pummelon]

... what about the people that got chris, an unfit, smoking, curry eating, fat desk jockey up said hill. It wouldnt suprise me if someone carried him up

You're either taking the piss or you're a moron. Which is it?

[Blinko Glick]

Yeah, credit where credit's due mate

[MK Chris]

... what about the people that got chris, an unfit, smoking, curry eating, fat desk jockey up said hill. It wouldnt suprise me if someone carried him up

You're either taking the piss or you're a moron. Which is it?

It's both.

[Munki Bhoy]

To put it in perspective, we couldn't even get nine people to the top of Ben Lomond a couple of weeks ago. Seven of us made it, two turned back when the snow came. That's a few hours walk in reasonable conditions for most of it, to a height that's less than a sixth of the height of Kilimanjaro - so no altitude sickness to come into it.

I'm sure as huge mountains in the world go it's probably one of the easier ones. It's not like it's K2 or Everest when you literally need climbing gear and even oxygen tanks to get up. You can walk this one (or at least, walk and scramble bits of it) but that doesn't mean it's any less of a feat.

[thee moomin hunter]

neither, you?

[wireman2004]

thee moonim hunter.

You seriously have a screw loose. You are insane seriously. Why put the efforts of chris and the team and pass it off as some joke. If you actually listened too the show last week. You'll hear that aleasha nearly never made it. Fern was seriously ill. Cherl nearly never made it.
What chris and the other climbers did was something that people have died trying too do. What other people can't do. As previously said. 40% of all people who undertake the climb make it. Some are fitter than chris and built like a sportsman. Could you make it. Probably not. Could i make it. Probably not.

Too underline what i'm saying. Chris has done what very few people could achieve. And what very few people can claim too have done.