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Mount Everest is a fake ass accomplishment for rich people anyway. You don’t carry all your shit, there are lines to the peak, garbage everywhere, it’s basically Times Square for CEOs who want to market themselves as ‘adventurers’. Slightly more death involved each year, but that has more to do with the weather than how Tough someone is.
They have luxury expeditions with private chefs, hot tubs and massages. Kinda misses the point in my opinion.
For those interested, hers is a video on the subject I recently watched:
Holy fuck. If you're a first time climber, you have a 1 in 6 chance of dying? That's insane.
Playing Russian roulette would be a lot cheaper.
Makes me think about how rich people apparently ruined Burning Man
We were just talking about that in our house. Some people have died waiting in line for a selfie.
And none of them are missed.
Its kind of like the opposite of a guillotine.
Doesn't always work, but when it does, you basically did it to yourself.
The corpse pile problem on Everest has been getting significantly worse for a while now.
... same thing, to a lesser extent, with the Titanic.
Maybe we could make an empathetic argument that there shouldn't be any billionaires: Having that much money makes you so stupid and encourages such risky behavior that really, you should be thanking us for not allowing you to get into a dangerous headspace.
It's a nice after-work walk you might say, nothing to it, just a few spots where you have to take your hands out of your pockets!
Doesn't make it a fake ass accomplishment
You can't just stroll up there still.
I've done up to 6000m, and hoping to do 7000m.
You do rely on sherpas, but it still isn't a day hike either. Even Hillary's team used sherpas to assist
What makes it fake is presenting it as the work of an individual, as those egotistical peak selfies and tedious biographies frequently do. (General) you didn’t make it to the peak, you were helped along by underpaid locals dragging around all the shit that is keeping you alive, who frequently lose their lives in an effort to support their families so some tech bro can get a selfie. It’s a gross way to spend $30k+.
And 30k is on the cheap end. I think the average is like 50-60k now. Over 100k if you go with the really high end companies. Its crazy.
You're being upvoted, but, what experience do you have mountaineering training? Any? Have you even got hiking experience
It feels like you're just saying stuff that simply sounds valid, but is distorted.
Re: point 6, oxygen content of air is usually 21%. Did you mean it's 30% of that normal 21%?
Even Hillary's team used sherpas to assist
Nothing says "fake accomplishment" like claiming to be the first to reach the top of a mountain by relying on the help (read: exploitation) of local people who had presumably been doing it for hundreds of years.
Near the top though.
Fuck Everest. I wanna be the first person to climb Olympus Mons. Bigger challenge. Right off the bat, even the base of it has air too thin to breathe without special equipment. 😌
At this point I'm perfectly happy with my daily walk around Pubis Mons
Got me thinking, Olympus Mons is the tallest peak in the solar system right? But there is no water on Mars.
Mount Everest is measured from sea level. If you measured from the bottom of the ocean it's there a taller peak somewhere on earth?
That would be Mauna Kea in Hawai’i
Cool, thanks! 9,330 m
Still not close to Olympus Mons but the more you know...
The lower gravity is a mitigating factor.
I've been planning my ascent since I was four.
I won't hesitate to Amundsen you.
Also it's so huge that it is basically flat. It's not a climb but a long trek.
I'd like to workshop how to make climbing Everest uncool amongst the stupid rich.
Make it inexpensive. They’ll drop it in a second.
Quite the opposite! Charge them ten million bucks. They'll all want to go and quite a few won't come back.
Worked for the Titan sub
Billionaire popsicle :L
I'd like to workshop how to make it more alluring and dangerous.
Can't miss it, right next to Green Boots
That was the worst part of my experience with going to altitude. I inevitably get tumbly guts and begin having gas like nobody's business. Damn my friend for telling me to go with him to the 14k peak one day after I arrived from sea level, but damn that stupid trail for making it so difficult to find a secluded place to spew my poor bowels' contents.
Frozen shit everywhere, tripping over dead people, lack of oxygen, rubbish strewn about, frostbite, lines and wait times to get to the peak ... sounds like a massive tourism drawcard!
There's not too many dead people on 14k peaks, but hey, imagination's a way to get you to where you want to be!
Yeah, once you're above the treeline, you're on your own.
That would never happen because women dont have bowel movements.
Left at green boots, right at shitting girl, and if you see jorking it guy, you've gone too far.
Sorry, Anne, that title is forever claimed by Kaitlyn Bennett.
I thought she was the "shitty girl"?
I mean, you'd be remembered in history, eh? It might come back every generation or so..."Dude! Look at what I found! This page shows that Shitting Girl is apparently someone forever stuck in a squat on Mount Everest! We have to go!"
They'd bring even more garbage up there in memoriam and some would die in prayer to the squatted wonder. Then one day, the mass of trash and accumulated snow would crack and the shitting wonder would avalanche to be lost until the aliens would track you down, freeze you in Carbonite, and sell you in the nearest intergalactic flea market. You get the idea.
Fame costs.