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re: Are people who climb Mt. Everest egomaniacs?
Posted on 5/29/19 at 11:47 am to lsuwontonwrap
Posted on 5/29/19 at 11:47 am to lsuwontonwrap
I wonder how many would still consider doing it, if they couldn't tell anyone that they had done it.....
Braggarts
Braggarts
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Posted on 5/29/19 at 11:53 am to lsu1987
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That pic of the climbers in line looks like the lines at Disney....
Or the next ride at disney. refrigerate a building, suck the oxygen out, rent them the winter gear, stand them in line, etc. Take a picture at the top for their Christmas cards.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 12:20 pm to Motorboat
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That looks miserable. At what point do you see that line and say to yourself that this is ridiculous?
By the time you see that, you're already in the process of dying. You can't go up. You can't go down. You just have to hope things move fast enough for you to get out of the Death Zone before it gets you.
This post was edited on 5/29/19 at 12:21 pm
Posted on 5/29/19 at 12:38 pm to real turf fan
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Or the next ride at disney. refrigerate a building, suck the oxygen out, rent them the winter gear, stand them in line, etc. Take a picture at the top for their Christmas cards.
It would be the most popular attraction in August.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 12:43 pm to Booyow
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now Himalayan there dead on the side of the mountain
I didn't get this for about 3 seconds after reading then it hit me like a ton of bricks.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 12:47 pm to chRxis
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it just doesn't have the impressive name recognition that Everest commandeers among people that would be impressed with this sort of thing...
Oh so you mean the “pro” climbers want that recognition too? Guess that means they need to shut the frick up then
Posted on 5/29/19 at 12:56 pm to TheCaterpillar
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I think they're finally feeling the international pressure to limit the crowds and waste that are growing on the mountain. Enough people are starting to die and the photos of the litter and stuff are really angering the environmentalist type folk.
They need to, at the very least, limit the count of people ascending to the peak each day.
IF they need more money, raise the damn prices. Its simple supply and demand
Posted on 5/29/19 at 1:36 pm to Motorboat
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That looks miserable. At what point do you see that line and say to yourself that this is ridiculous?
I don't know what a fast-pass and a handicap scooter cost, but that would be money well spent!
Posted on 5/29/19 at 1:55 pm to lsuwontonwrap
Why not add an elevator?
Posted on 5/29/19 at 1:57 pm to LCA131
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I wonder how many would still consider doing it, if they couldn't tell anyone that they had done it.....
Braggarts
Exactly this. If it was only for personal accomplishment, there are plenty of challenges, even some that help other people. The ONLY reason you choose Everest is to brag about it. There are harder mountains to climb, but none as recognizable.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 2:22 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82
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There are harder mountains to climb, but none as recognizable.
Depends on the route. There are very difficult routes to climb on Everest.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 2:35 pm to lsuwontonwrap
Attempting to do a revenue comparison, how many permits does Nepal issue each year?
Posted on 5/29/19 at 3:32 pm to lsuwontonwrap
all these climbers must be pussies. I made summit on Everest wearing gym shorts, t shirt and smoking Marlboro reds the whole way
Posted on 5/29/19 at 3:44 pm to deltaland
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all these climbers must be pussies. I made summit on Everest wearing gym shorts, t shirt and smoking Marlboro reds the whole way
I prefer Lucky Strike, you filter having pussy.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 3:47 pm to Melvin Spellvin
381 people on 44 teams. A little shy of $4.2 million in permit fees alone. Then there’s the money spent for lodging on the hike in There’s money for sherpas and porters and supplies also. I’m pretty sure the climbers are also required to purchase insurances.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 3:59 pm to VABuckeye
and unfortunately the real heroes, the sherpas get paid a pitiful percentage of that. Nepalese govt could easily double or triple the price of a permit, all these people could afford it, and the sherpas could get a more equitable percentage for what they risk.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 4:26 pm to meeple
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Taking a trip for six months, you get in the rhythm of it. It feels like you can go on forever doing that. Climbing Everest is the ultimate and the opposite of that. Because you get these high-powered plastic surgeons and CEOs, and you know, they pay $80,000 and have Sherpas put the ladders in place and 8,000 feet of fixed ropes and you get to the camp and you don’t even have to lay out your sleeping bag. It’s already laid out with a chocolate mint on the top. The whole purpose of planning something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain and if you compromise the process, you’re an a-hole when you start out and you’re an a-hole when you get back.”
Yea anyone in good physical shape and plenty of cash can summit doing it this way. That’s not really an accomplishment. The accomplishment comes from doing the planning and most of the rigorous work yourself or just you and a small group of like minded climbers.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 4:43 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
Some may know from the other thread I spent 25 years of my life mountaineering and summited Everest, Broad Peak, Cho Oyu, Annapurna and a host of lower peaks around the world. I dunno if I am an egomaniac, my wife may think so, but I spent my life doing things I wanted to do that just happen to make for interesting cocktail party stories. I am about to go on a posting spree so feel free to skip them they may have an OweO feel to them.
There was. The flags everyone leaves don't make it past July at the longest, 100 plus days of hurricane force winds will see to that.
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There's a Louisiana state flag stuck in the mountain near the peak that a Uhigh graduate put there in 2010.
There was. The flags everyone leaves don't make it past July at the longest, 100 plus days of hurricane force winds will see to that.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 4:44 pm to lsuwontonwrap
People are egomaniacs, period.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 4:46 pm to OchoDedos
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the Sherpas, don't care if you live or die
I deal with climbing ethics in a later post but every Sherpa I have ever climbed would go above an beyond to help a climber, especially if it is one of "their" climbers. Their reasoning is varied but still holds true.
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