I had the pleasure of initiating a new generation of shooters age 8 (twin grandsons) this past weekend with Daisy air guns and many mangled soda cans. The looks on their faces when the cans went flying was priceless. They were good about the rules too.
You don't scale 14K feet plus alone, just plain stupid it's like scuba diving alone' no out if things go south. But if weather was the issue then it would not matter.