Literally a shitpost.

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• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=imHXyoquZyA

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Holy fuck. If you’re a first time climber, you have a 1 in 6 chance of dying? That’s insane.

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  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We were just talking about that in our house. Some people have died waiting in line for a selfie.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And none of them are missed.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its kind of like the opposite of a guillotine.

    Doesn’t always works, 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.

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  • stenAanden@feddit.dk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ultimate basement dweller comment.

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    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Akasazh@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m reading this as recursive, and it works

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  • auzy1@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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

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    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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+.

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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!

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• SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • testaccount789@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Near the top though.

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• imadethis@fedinsfw.app ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Yeah, once you’re above the treeline, you’re on your own.

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  • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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!

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck Everest. I wanna be the first person to climb Olympus Mon.

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  • fonix232@fedia.io ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At this point I'm perfectly happy with my daily walk around Pubis Mons

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  • nycvin@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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?

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    • Shootfast@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That would be Mauna Kea in Hawai’i

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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 🤷‍♂️

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  • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    … I see what you did there.

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  • jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The lower gravity is a mitigating factor.

    I’ve been planning my ascent since I was four.

    I won’t hesitate to Amundsen you.

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    • Klear@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Also it’s so huge that it is basically flat. It’s nit a climb but a long trek.

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  • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Let’s be realistic and say Inaccessible Island instead. Like come on, it’s in the name.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d like to workshop how to make climbing Everest uncool amongst the stupid rich.

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  • atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Make it inexpensive. They’ll drop it in a second.

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Quite the opposite! Charge them ten million bucks. They’ll all want to go and write a few won’t come back.

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• kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can’t miss it, right next to Green Boots

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• fonix232@fedia.io ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sorry, Anne, that title is forever claimed by Kaitlyn Bennett.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I thought she was the “shitty girl”?

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fame costs.

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