I enjoy reading about other people's moutaineering experiences.  Have you ever been mountaineering?
Oh yes, I climbed a mountain one time, but now I just hike up little ones.
Which mountain did you climb?
I climbed Mt. Kenya when visiting Kenya, that is when I thought mountaineering only meant climbing.
I would love to go to Kenya some day.  Are there a lot of animals on Mount Kenya?
not really, but you really need to be fit and have athletic ability as it is hard going up.
I would imagine so.  How tall is it's summit?
it is about 2,834 feet high if I am not wrong, and the peak has snow on it. 
It must be a beautiful sight.
Mount Everest
Mount Everest (Nepali: Sagarmatha ; Tibetan: Chomolungma ; Chinese Zhumulangma ) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The international border between Nepal (Province No. 1) and China (Tibet Autonomous Region) runs across its summit point.
The current official elevation of , recognized by China and Nepal, was established by a 1955 Indian survey and subsequently confirmed by a Chinese survey in 1975. In 2005, China remeasured the rock height
. Noy's theory has not found widespread support in the mountaineering community. There is much scepticism that an inexperienced amateur like Wilson could have climbed the mountain unassisted, and Chris Bonington has said "I think you can say with absolute certainty that he would have had no chance whatsoever." Climbing historian Jochen Hemmleb and Wilson's biographer Peter Meier-Hüsing have both suggested that Gombu was mistaken about the altitude of the tent and pointed out that his account has not been borne out by other members of the 1960 expedition. It