Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 26, 2012

You go ahead. I’ll watch from the safety of base camp. Actually, tell you what, guys ? Why don’t I just meet you back at the hotel ?

Fullbodycast Valley should have been your first clue.

“I’ll meet you at the top” often leads to meeting at the bottom. After years of being around climbs mountain goats couldn’t do, the real answer was for most, because it’s fun.

Some people are addicted to drugs; others to hormones . . . adrenaline comes to mind.

“There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.”

But when they triple mountain goat dare ya…. you’re on the Matterhorns of a dilemma.

I seem to remember Hillary saying, after Everest, “We did the bugger” or words to that effect. Seems a perfectly good reason to me.

The one that makes me clinch my cheeks is free climbing. No ropes, no safety gear, usually solo. And absolutely no forgiveness for the tinyest mistake. Like they say, “It isn’t the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop.”

Coming back down the mountain is the easiest part.

To each their own.

I guess mountain climbing just peaks their interest…

Awww Wiley… this should have been a Saturday 20th Anniversary strip – it was called Mt. Kumwachafall back then…

Do you think we can get all the politicians to go climb it?

Great comments, guys.

Around here the mountains are the ones falling.

Recreation versus leisure . . . .

I find the thought of scaling a mountainside absolutely rappelling.

There’s probably a guru sitting up top that has figured out the meaning of life, but can’t figure out how to get down.

if you don’t know why, you won’t understand. BS. it’s thinning of the nut cases from the herd. google: the darwin effect

“Because it is there.”

Wiley already did this EXACT same strip early in his career. The only differences: guy’s name was different; drawing was different (mountain in question was seen in the distance as the climbers hiked to it), and the mountain’s name was Kumwhatchafall Peak. Either way, BOTH are very funny.

Without a doubt, the craziest people in mountain climbing movies are the cameramen.

I used to live in Big Flats, NY. I always thought, pitty the girl who wins a beauty contest there.

I’ve a great view with my HDTV.

this would be a lot funnier if it weren’t for the memory of my high school friend who had a piton pull out 900 feet up.

If everyone climbs Mount Everest for the challenge, why do they always go up the easy side?

O-K2.

Like those wealthy people who journey to Nepal and attempt Mount Everest, because they want to brag about the accomplishment. Some have died trying.

Insanity comes in many forms….some even say insanity is a mathematical formula…I=A squared-IN=STUIPDITY infinitum if A=adrenalin and IN=Intelligence

Yep. just another possible Darwin Award in the making

Funny how these things are. When coworkers used to ask me if I wanted to join them in going to a topless bar, I said I reserved the weekend for a chess tournament. If one isn’t in to chess, one probably can’t see how it could possibly compare for excitement!

Eventually gravity always wins.