After smoking a Davidoff Rolls Royce on top of Aconcagua during the winter of 2003, the thought hit me that it would be a worthy feat to smoke a cigar on top of each of the continents' highest mountains. At the time I sent an email to Davidoff to inquire whether they might be interested in sponsoring such an adventure. I didn't get a reply. While I did smoke a Romeo Julieta at Denali's Basin Camp after summiting, the idea perished in my head shortly thereafter. In 2005 I took some cigars to Everest, but I smoked them all at advanced base camp before I even began climbing. But the idea just will not leave me, as it again re-awakens my adventurous spirit to do something big. And so I offer to this question to the greater smoking public: is this an interesting, worthwhile endeavor or not?
Sounds pretty cool, and would definitely be one hell of a feat. Would you be able to summit all of these peaks without O's, to allow you to smoke a cigar at the top?
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Originally posted by Dread Pirate Roberts: Right, let's see you try to light one on the peak of Everest. Take the oxygen mask off in howling winds and fire it up.
By the way, I have some ocean front property in Arizona that might interest you.
LOL. Sir Edmund "Churchill" Hillary has joined the forum.
Be sure to inhale. It will make the descent much faster.
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I was planning on not using oxygen on my next ascent of Everest. A good torch would be sufficient to light a cigar in a good wind, and if the wind were that bad, you most likely would not find me on the summit. Waiting for good weather is why Everest expeditions often take months and not days.
Originally posted by matthew hood from cocke county: I was planning on not using oxygen on my next ascent of Everest. A good torch would be sufficient to light a cigar in a good wind, and if the wind were that bad, you most likely would not find me on the summit. Waiting for good weather is why Everest expeditions often take months and not days.
this is a pretty funny thread. no O2 on your accent. sounds like you are not brining something else with you. grey matter.
be sure to bring a bottle of 50 yo macallan, and polish that sucker off.
Sounds like "danger " is your middle name.
I would be willing to sponsor you with some pretty rare Cuban's if you smoke them in Kabul, while wearing a tee shirt depicting the big "M" doing a goat.
Cor: Steve, you have proven yourself to be a tremendous whack job.
At least 7 other Americans, let alone other nationalities, have done so without oxygen. From experience, I do not think I will need it, although I would consider having a bottle for backup.
Originally posted by matthew hood from cocke county: At least 7 other Americans, let alone other nationalities, have done so without oxygen. From experience, I do not think I will need it, although I would consider having a bottle for backup.
matt unless you plan on dipping your cigars in white gas, they will not stay lit in the low air pressure environment at 29,000 ft, and extreme cold will probably explode a cigar that has 60% humidity.
Even if you did get the cigar lit, the nicotine from the cigar would restrict your arteries and you would probably expire rather painfully.
Kabul looks like it more your style. What do ya say tough guy?
Cor: Steve, you have proven yourself to be a tremendous whack job.
I didn't know that a cigar could stay lit at 22000 feet or 30000feet. The air pressure is 1/3 sealevel pressure. I would think that at those cold temperatures a butane torch would have to kept in an an inside pocket in order to be warm enough to have enough pressure to flow. Would it ignite?
As for a cigar not lighting at 8000+ meters, I have to admit I do not know, but I did not have any problem above 7000 meters. This is an interesting question you pose Steve: Can a cigar physically be smoked at 29,000 feet? Personally, I would be surprised if it could not insofar as no perceptible difference has been found by me up to 1700 meters shy of this altitude. But you do inspire a shade of doubt in me on this question.
