None of those idiots was forced to go up there.
Man, first Overwatch 2 and now this.
That’s the first thing I thought too lol
Is there anything these assholes wont fuckup? I’m here waiting for Warcraft 4 and Starcraft:Ghost, and all Blizzard can do is harrass their female employees and strand mountain climbers. wtfman
World of Starcraft
They haven’t been able to get enough vespene gas
I’m glad I’m not the only one to first think it was the company, not the weather event lol
came for this type of reply.
Hahaha, that was my first thought as well, until I remembered blizzards are a weather phenomema.
I’m not sure this is related to to the story. If you read the article, One thousand climbers shared a milkshake from dairy Queen and couldn’t continue due to a food coma.
For a glorious moment I thought it was Blizzard entertainment.
Same. And it was more a “how did they manage” than a “would they”, because of course they would.
Fucking Blizzard. If its not asexually harassing worker. Its stranding climbers on mountains.
How do you asexually assault someone. Is that when you make no sexual advances on your coworkers — against their will?
agreeing to “non-consensual sex”
I suppose that’s just normal assault
WoW
Fuck Blizzard though, regardless of the type.
I mean, 2 damage aoe was pretty good at the time.
Wtf are 1000 climbers doing on Mt Everest.
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.
Impressing the bots on Facebook.
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:
Selection bias is the bias introduced by the selection of individuals, groups, or data for analysis in such a way that the association between exposure and outcome among those selected for analysis differs from the association among those eligible`
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.
Amazing that there are even 1000 people climbing it at the same time. I shudder to think what the once pristine mountainside used to look like vs now.
There is a line to get to the summit sometimes
It looks like a garbage trail littered with corpses. https://allthatsinteresting.com/mount-everest-bodies
and POOP.
The world’s largest monument to vanity.
Honestly, as long as the rich assholes are dying and not the native guides, I’m seeing it as a honey pot situation. Not nice for the environment there, but still a net positive.
Idiots have tried K2, which is more dangerous.
not the guides
Bad news for ya on that front…
Rich don’t get you up Everest. Read Into Thin Air. The climb is horrifying, even with rich people gear and Sherpa’s.
Better living through technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Delsalle
Didier Delsalle (born May 6, 1957, in Aix-en-Provence, France) is a former fighter pilot and helicopter test pilot. On May 14, 2005, he became the first (and only) person to land a helicopter, the Eurocopter AS350 Squirrel, on the 8,848 m (29,030 ft) summit of Mount Everest.[1]
larges mummification event in recent time.
That’s Dubai
Future archeologists will welcome our preserved samples of DNA the same way we did Ötzi the Iceman.
Watched 14 Peaks last week and when they got to Mount Everest, there was a literal line of like 100+ people queued all the way up to the top of the mountain.
They’re mostly waiting for good weather during a short climbing season. It’s not year round. So basically everyone goes at once
I thought the window was in May. It certainly ain’t October!
Good point
A lot are trekkers rather than climbers if that helps. Their environmental footprint is much smaller.
Shout out to Star Trek fans for their small environmental footprint
You guys don’t have snowmobiles?
-Blizzard
Lich King ARG goes hard
So who’s going to be the new Green Boots?
Well I need good Carma so I hope they survive to make the movie about it.
Good!
I’m really hoping you somehow think this is about the company Blizzard…
