# 85 year old to climb Everest. With Dachshund. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 25, 2006, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85-year-old-to-climb-everest-with-dachshund/346060 "2006-02-25T12:26:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85-year-old-to-climb-everest-with-dachshund/346060/1 "2006-02-25T12:26:39Z")
Mary Woodbridge is an [85 year old English woman](http://dogmuse.blogspot.com/2006/02/85-year-old-to-climb-everest-with.html) who will be climbing Mount Everest with her Dachshund, Daisy. So far the oldest person to make the summit was a 70 year old Japanese climber, in 2001. Mary’s trip is set to start on March 4. Here’s her [website](http://www.mary-woodbridge.co.uk/frameset_mw.html) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85-year-old-to-climb-everest-with-dachshund/346060/2 "2006-02-25T12:35:23Z")
I think Mary’s dog is a con-dog. It don’t look like no dachshund to me. Careful Mary I think he is just Eurotrash. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85-year-old-to-climb-everest-with-dachshund/346060/3 "2006-02-25T12:42:44Z")
Translated as: 85-year-old Englishwoman gets into trouble on big mountain, dies of hypothermia. Meanwhile, sherpas feast on chilly dog. (Sorry.) ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85-year-old-to-climb-everest-with-dachshund/346060/4 "2006-02-25T13:26:54Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Translated as: 85-year-old Englishwoman gets into trouble on big mountain, dies of hypothermia. > > Meanwhile, sherpas feast on chilly dog. > > (Sorry.) No no…she’s _training_ daily, I think she stands a fair chance of making it! Chilly weiner dog? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85-year-old-to-climb-everest-with-dachshund/346060/5 "2006-02-25T13:44:25Z")
Does the dog get oxygen? Does anyone feel that this cheapens the efforts of Ed Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing? ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85-year-old-to-climb-everest-with-dachshund/346060/6 "2006-02-25T15:06:21Z")
That’s gonna be one cold pup. Poor little lamb, I’ll bet the DOG doesn’t want to climb Everest. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85-year-old-to-climb-everest-with-dachshund/346060/7 "2006-02-25T15:18:18Z")
I like the fact she’s eschewing the regular routes because she’s “not really into this whole camping thing”. “…Daisy and I will choose a direct route from the Base Camp to the Top.” What a marvellous nation we are. ---
**Author:** ![6\_6\_6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e0b2c6/32.png) [@6\_6\_6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6_6_6)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85-year-old-to-climb-everest-with-dachshund/346060/8 "2006-02-25T15:30:33Z")
Looks perfectly feasible to me. A little grey-haired lady wouldn’t try to whoosh us, would she? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85-year-old-to-climb-everest-with-dachshund/346060/9 "2006-02-25T15:41:42Z")
> [@6 6 6](#): > > Looks perfectly feasible to me. A little grey-haired lady wouldn’t try to whoosh us, would she? Impossible! I remember reading somewhere… that foreigners outside the US don’t know the meaning of satire. Especially the British, you have to be very careful how you speak to them as they take everything _very_ literally. Kidding around in ol’ Englandland will get you beatdown! And remember it’s a _long haired_ Dachshund. No worries!