I don’t give a fuck. Gooooooooooooood. It’s mainly overly wealthy people doing this. They shit and leave crap all over the mountain. Literal shit everywhere.
It is 100% overly wealthy, selfish people and the service workers they’ve trapped with them.
Spending thousands on gear, then going all the way to Nepal (a less developed country) to climb a mountain is the very definition of “overly wealthy.”
Nothing says “I don’t care about anyone else” like insisting on being the millionth tough guy to climb a mountain, just to say they did.
I think this should be part of the risk. Leave them up there and clean the bodies up when it thaws.
Come on with those absolutes… first hit on google for a commercial top of the line expedition ranges between 100k for the crazy short-track « climb the whole thing » to a relatively affordable 3k to go to the base camp…. Which is less than a whole lot of families apparently spend on vacation. Additionally those are very important source of revenues for Nepalis…
Oh, the “locals depend on the revenue” argument. Haven’t seen that in a while.
That’s tangential but worth mentioning. At the very least I have an adopted brother over there that depends on tourists so yeah, I feel it’s a sensible argument. My whole point is that it is such a specific and hateful position… the guy should really chill down a bit.
Oh, that includes all of the equipment, flights, and transportation?
For one person, right? Comparing it to a family vacation proves my point. A douchebag insisting on going to a big mountain seems a little different than a family vacation…
I will never mind speaking in absolutes about this. If you care about going to Everest, you are a selfish asshole. Full stop. I don’t care that it’s affordable for you, that’s part of the problem.
I don’t care if the locals rely on the abuse, it’s still abuse.
Dude you have very weird and specific perspectives. To each their own doesn’t ring a bell? Is it an Everest specific issue or do you sell wholesale for other destinations as well?
Take that hait energy and make something positive out of it instead…
It’s actually ok to not like harmful things! It’s called having integrity.
Your arrogance is astounding.
My arrogance ? Sure is… I’m the one judging everyone….
where do you draw the line of harmful things? We are by nature harmful things to a degree with all our activities…
I read another headline earlier, something like “Blizzard strands 1000 people on Mt Everest.”
And my early morning brain went “ugh Blizzard really is an awful company, going way too overboard with their promotional material.” I wasn’t even that surprised.
Now I see this headline and that earlier one makes more sense 😂
While it’s tragic that the mountain is going to add to its death toll on this, the idea of people queued up on the world’s tallest peak just for limited-time virtual merch, made me chuckle a bit.
After that Pokemon Go stampede in Central Park all those years ago, I’m feel like stunts like that are far more plausible than ever.
Edit: I also keep forgetting about the stuff RedBull does these days…
Yeah that’s the thing. It would be outragiously stupid way to advertise their things, but sadly that does not make it impossible…
It’s fucking stupid that there were that many people on that mountain in the first place. Climbing it is like a millionaires bucket list item, so many of those assholes do it.
I know it brings in a lot of money, so this will never happen, but I’d like to see the mountain completely closed. Pay the Sherpas to bring down all the dead bodies, then give them a pension. Some billionaire will no doubt try to buy their way in, but don’t let them. Keep some things sacred above money, tell them to fuck off.
To me, it’s not necessarily people climbing it that’s the issue. It’s that some people have so little respect for everyone and everything that they’re perfectly content to use the world as their own personal trash can.
I shit you not, I recently chewed some lady out on the hiking trail 2 miles from my house because she chucked the plastic bowl and spoon from her lunch off into the woods, in front of God and everybody like it’s just no big deal. Well it’s a big fucking deal to me.
And if a person can’t manage to go on a hike or scale a mountain without leaving their garbage behind like a slob, then they should stay home.
No way. I want to see this and extreme deep sea exploration become a billionaire’s bucket list item. Send them all.
I gotta admit, I’m never upset when I hear about tourists dying on everest.
Rich people deserve every bad thing that happens to them until they give up their wealth or it’s taken by force.
100% but they can’t get ANY tax break or subsidy for that. They also can’t get PR out of it.
I heard about this really amazing adventure we could send them on.
To be honest. If I died on the top of the highest peak in the world. I’d want my body to stay there. Like, unless it’s in the way and creeping people out. Leave me.
I’d strike a pose or something. I think it would be cooler if it was in the way and creeping people out tbh. I’d probably climb the mountain with a few props just in case.
And here is Grimy from .world. They froze to death 500 years ago with a massive Dildo in their mouth. Some wonder if they froze attempting to place the butt plug in as well. But, as all their clothes are still on, most people believe the motion was simply a gesture for, what people at the time called, “the memes”.
LMAO
I don’t know much about it but I think trying to climb that mountain might be dangerous
Yes, that’s why they do it
So everything is fine then.
Into Thin Air x 100
Reading that book made me decide trying to climb Everest is a bad idea.
Every chapter made me sure I didn’t want to climb everest.
Okay, it took me a minute to realize this wasn’t a bunch of Star Trek fans stranded on Everest.
