Posted on 05/23/2024 4:09:43 AM PDT by C19fan
The route to the summit of Mount Everest is jam packed with eager climbers frantically rushing to reach the world's highest point - even as several adventurers and their guides were killed or went missing this week.
Shocking video shared to social media showed how a string of dozens of climbers snaked up the glacier in the high-altitude 'death zone' - so called because the air is so thin that most have to rely on supplementary oxygen to survive.
The 'human traffic jam', captured on May 20, came as the mountain enjoyed a 'weather window' - a brief period of clear conditions in which successfully reaching the summit is a less perilous task.
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That sounds about as much fun as going into a cave in pure blackness.
Some of the people who attempt to climb Mount Everest are environmentally conscious and vocal advocates for addressing climate change and pollution. However, when I see photos of traffic jams, trash, and dead bodies on the mountain, it strikes me as hypocritical, and I believe the climb should be banned. It seems that ordinary people might have more sense than some of these environmentalists.
Can anyone imagine just how many 5 gal buckets of human waste and dead bodies are filling up the mountain?
It’s a big business with lots of customers willing to pay.
Maybe waiting in line for hours is a great way to network with stupid money people and make connections. If a failed Instagram princess wants to meet a rich adventurer, using a euphoric assist from severe oxygen deprivation, it could be love at first sight, or maybe just brain damage.
Dozens of dead bodies frozen and left for later.
This is stupidity.
The locals don't share Western aesthetics so they have little incentive to reduce the number of climbers.
Add to oxygen deprivation the threat of changing weather trapping you in frigid cold at high altitude or avalanche and the threat of death is non-trivial for almost every climb.
My brother climbed to the top of Mt. McKinley. He was the only member of his climbing party to make it to the top.
“I went through a phase where I read the Everest and K2 books about various expeditions. Ugh, no more!”
Me too. When Krakauer’s book INTO THIN AIR came out.
Yeah, they’d better hurry before global warming melts Mount Everest.
do they go down a back trail or do they have to go back down the line they just came up???
And the auroras earlier this month.
Ping!........................
That would be a good way to get rid of the bodies scattered around up there.
Eeek!!!!
I had a hot dog once at a Nathan’s at a rest area on the New Jersey Turnpike that had a texture as if it had been made from one of those desiccated corpses found up there!
I don’t have a problem with doing it, even if I do have a problem with the necessity of rescue teams who sometimes have to get involved.
It is one thing if you go out for a hike and get lost in the woods and need rescuing.
It is quite another when you engage in something where you are rappelling up the side of a 15,000 foot mountain and they have to call in some rescue jumpers.
Even still, I accept it. We rescue people who need it...:)
I left that gruesome part out, read somewhere years ago on average 2 people DIE every year. Also it is said there is an underground ‘market’ for those with bucks to buy their way to the front of line so to speak and other nefarious activities.
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