The Summit

So I finished Everest: Beyond the Limit the other day. I was actually glued to the TV for the second to the last episode, and I couldn't imagine how the last episode would top it. Everyone in the group managed to summit, but the DRAMA. One guy, who had been kind of a problem, always doing things his way, which was usually LATE and at his own speed, actually BROKE HIS HAND on the way up, IN TWO PLACES. So he decides he absolutely has to continue on to reach the summit. The main issue is (as the voice-over guy has told us time and time again) that once you reach the summit, you are only halfway there. Just because you reached it alive, doesn't mean you automatically get to live. Anyway, this guy made it back down with the help of the guides and the next episode had the asthmatic and this 71-year-old Japanese guy summiting also. I figured they probably might not be showing this stuff if one of these guys actually died, but maybe they would. They showed other climbers who had died. Everyone had to actually pass a couple of bodies on the way, and the camera showed one over and over. This was a totally exciting series, which also wasn't too long. I may actually look into renting the first season, and I'll definitely be watching the third.

TV Update

So I'm home from Montana and totally into Everest: Beyond the Limit 2007. I watched a couple more episodes today, and I now have four left. I may have to look into the first season. Plus, while you are watching a show on Discovery Channel, you see all these commercials for other shows, and you sit there thinking, "Hmm, that looks kind of cool." I could end up watching a lot more DC this winter.

I'm also pretty excited to start watching Robin Hood Series 2 again. I was watching weekly as it was being shown, but soon got behind, so now I'm going to start at the beginning again and work my way through. One of the reasons I'm excited about RH is, of course, Jonas Armstrong. Last year after watching RH Series 1, I have to admit I was pretty obsessed. I read how he had been working out since last year and had put on 20 some pounds of muscle, but I remember in the first few eps of this series, I was thinking, to me, he kind of just looks plumper. Not that he was ever fat, but his body type last year was sort of tennis player/swimmer type, which was just fine by me! I have a Google Alert in place on him, and I was just reading on someone's blog that they thought he looked chubbier this year. So since I am planning on watching the whole second series all at once, I'm sure I'll be able to come to an opinion on my own!

Everest: Beyond the Limit

Jana is a huge fan of anything about Mt. Everest, not that she wants to climb it, but it's interesting to her to read about and watch TV about. So she had Everest: Beyond the Limit TiVo'd and we've been watching bits and pieces of it. It's funny, because probably every 45 seconds, she's pausing the program so we can comment on how insane these people are. Seriously. I think it's the same sort of mental condition that makes people want to go to Alaska and live by themselves in the wild off the land. Maybe they're not insane, per se, but there's something up. But then maybe they think there's something up about people who want to drink non-fat Black & White Mochas from Starbucks and watch British TV all day.