Yeah, this is great. Can really see the deeply -PDO in place, with the most extreme anomalies on the entire planet in the central Pacific. And warm Atlantic hurricane corridor.

On a scale of 1-10, 1 being Mailbox peak and a 10 being K2, I'd place it around a 6. Highly depends on the year and month you go, we were early in the season so the fixed lines above 14k camp were still being de-iced meaning we couldn't use them, and that section is a long 50 degree slope of blue ice. Basically the entire route below 14k camp is spent on highly crevassed Glaciers, but we came on a high snow year and had stable snowbridges the entire way, we were lucky enough to only have 1 group member fall in a crevasse. There's a number of knife edge ridgewalks, where a fall not caught by rope or arrested with an ice axe would mean certain death. And of course there is a lot of Avalanche danger and risk of frostbite in a major storm. Worst part is that you're legally required to carry 2+ weeks of sh*t in your backpack, back in the 80s we were allowed to throw it in the famous poop crevasse.

Gotcha. I mean, it seems plausible, just wondered if there was any established correlation there.

Yup, ATL Cane season primed to be a beast

More like belief. Foreign aid is less than 2% of the U.S. Federal budget. https://www.crfb.org/blogs/breakdown-foreign-aid-obligations