Are you an adventurer already? What kinds of adventures have you been on? Are you in great shape? How many mountains have you climbed already? Have you done any ice climbing? What is the most dangerous situation you have survived? Have you done any climbing with ropes? What’s the highest mountain you’ve every been on? How old are you?
There’s a portion of your brain that allows you to make forecasts about the consequences of your actions. When you’re a teenager, and up into your early twenties, that part of your brain is not very well developed. It’s one of the reasons young people discount the dangerous consequences of their behavior. The “high risk of death” doesn’t mean anything to you. It’s just words.
Young men, I think, tend to get sorted out pretty quickly because of this. Before the teens, males are a majority of their age cohort. Afterwards, females are the majority, I believe (I know it happens; just not sure exactly how fast it happens).
The guys who are still alive, no doubt, become leaders of some kind. Some are leaders because of the “heroism” they showed. They took big risks and survived. Others are leaders because of the brains they showed. They didn’t take big risks. They demonstrated an ability to compensate for the lack of development of that part of their mind. The rest? Perhaps damaged or maybe even dead.
The good citizen in me wants to urge caution on you. The “I don’t know you from fuck” part of me says, “go for it!” Either there will be one less idiot in the world, or you’ll learn so much so fast that there will be one more smart person in the world. Trial by fire. As you say, “Why shouldn’t I climb that sucker?”
I’ll tell you why I’m not going to. I like my warm showers every morning.