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Wtf are 1000 climbers doing on Mt Everest.
Impressing the bots on Facebook.
Every last CEO, internet influencer and wealthy investor in the world has "climbing Everest" on their bucket list to validate their identities and they want all their employees to see the pictures of them spending absurd amounts of money to climb a mountain and a see a view almost as high as a passenger airliner.
I've said for a while that Nepal and China will have to do something drastic soon.
The deaths and trash and bodies are piling up, and eventually it's going to make the entire "adventure" so repulsive that people are going to stop spending tens of thousands to go try to climb a rock.
Either they're going to radically restrict access to the mountain, or if they really want to keep the tourism money coming, they will have to consider developing the region. Concrete and asphalt basecamp with roads to nearby cities, facilities and helipads and a reinforced complex of resorts and hotels designed to withstand storms and with oxygen bars on every level. Stairs and guardrails all the way up to the summit and drone-patrols watching for people passing out.
Enjoying the money of useful idiots.
Tourism.
What the fuck is one climber doing on Mt. Everest?
Your chances of dying are much higher than making it to the summit. It's only a mountain; what's the big deal anyway? There are much safer ways to get exercise and fulfillment; stay on level ground and live.
From wikipedia, ~13,000 people have summitted. From wikipedia, ~ 400 people have died on everest. What's this about your chances?
Have you heard of "selection bias"?
Why yeeeeesssssss, I haaaaaaaave. Remind me how that matters at all, considering we are talking about the specific selection that is being made? Here, since I was already using wikipedia as a source:
Note that selection bias is when you are sampling. We're not talking about a sample here, we're talking about the entire population. In statistics, we call that a parameter. It's generally rare that you can accurately determine a parameter, but since the amount of people who have tried to summit everest is so small, and records have been pretty good (aye, we're certainly missing a few), that 400/13000 number is pretty damn close.
My point is that the number of people who attempted Everest is so low, because the only people who attempt it are those who are very very good, and confident in their skills. So yes, of course the % is going to be relatively high.