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.
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.
Near the top though.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Ultimate basement dweller comment.
I’d rather someone dwell in a basement than exploit local people, litter, and leave literal piles of bagged human shit in a beautiful place that’s dangerous to clean. The level of entitlement is beyond comprehension.
Exploit local people??? Lol wut
This has been a long standing issue with Mt. Everest, here’s a recent article that does a deeper dive into it: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250530-the-everest-climbs-putting-sherpas-in-danger
I’m reading this as recursive, and it works
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…
Wouldn’t Everest still be the tallest? I mean, I have to assume it extends below sea level, too. It’s not just floating at sea level But where does a mountain start being a mountain and not just the ground? 🤔
The lower gravity is a mitigating factor.
I’ve been planning my ascent since I was four.
I won’t hesitate to Amundsen you.
Let’s be realistic and say Inaccessible Island instead. Like come on, it’s in the name.
Can’t miss it, right next to Green Boots
Sorry, Anne, that title is forever claimed by Kaitlyn Bennett.
I thought she was the “shitty girl”?
Fame costs.
