Climbing Everest

Woke up this morning and the first post I saw was this one from my batchmates from B-school (Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies) - Congratulations to Venkatesh Maheshwari.

Venkatesh Maheshwari reached the Top Of The World. Congratulations Venky.

This month marks 65 years that Mt. Everest was first conquered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.  

I paid tribute to this conquest with my post on this blog entitled Ain't No Mountain High Enough - also a song.... check out the post for more songs about #Mounta

That video was from the credits of Sister Act 2. But did you know that there is a 2015 film called Everest. Check out this track from the OST. 

As you would expect, our entire batch was proud of this achievement, and the WhatsApp group buzzing with Congratulatory messages. Here's one post that featured on the group - a poem by John F. McCullagh

Jul 2017

Climbing Everest

There are several approaches to climbing Everest.

Some are easier than some others, none are easy.

This mountain is littered with discarded equipment

and the evidence of loss and unforced errors.

The cold here, at the top of the world,

pierces through your clothes 

Like a million acupuncture needles.

The air is so thin

That hypoxia is a constant danger.

There is exhilaration at the summit

For those who reach the top

They stand where Mallory and Irvine stood

before they suffered their fatal drop.

We climb mountains because we are men.

We are addicted to the adrenaline rush.

We climb Everest because it is there.

We climb Everest because we must.

Will sign off the post with my favorite songs about mountains from the OST of one of the greatest musicals of all time, set around the Second World War.... The Sound of Music.... Climb Ev'ry Mountain...