[RedStateRocker]

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[fieldmarshaldj]

"Some climbers did not even know how to put on a pair of crampons"

Just ask a teenage girl.

[Berlin_Freeper]

eventually they will install an elevator.
worlds fastest.

[butlerweave]

There are more climbers up there waiting to get to the Summit than there are at Dem rallies

[dfwgator]

I wonder if the hairdressers were there....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngC_4j1gjMY

[Vigilanteman]

Saw a documentary on Everest once. Climbers get socked with heavy fees because everything they haul up there (food, human waste, etc.) has to either be consumed or hauled down by local guides.

There are also a few scattered corpses of climbers who didn't make arrangements to be hauled down in the event of their demise. If the next of kin is unavailable or otherwise unable to pay to bring them down, they stay.

I can't really see the motivation to join this crowd on an expensive and dangerous journey, but there seems to be no shortage of takers.

[sparklite2]

She took a selfie on Mount Everest

She’ll be...
tumbling down Mount Everest when she comes,
She’ll be broken, frozen shattered when she comes.
She’ll be flying through the cold air
screaming, “Help me, don’t just stand there!”
And still texting from her iPhone with her thumbs.

[Gamecock]

two examples of idiots

Clearly not prepared for the challenges.

[humblegunner]

The New York Times recently published this article

So you decided to stick it on your blog and get some credit for it.

[Valpal1]

Not my mountain, not my problem.

[PGR88]

Its a great point. The mortality rate for climbing Everest is, I believe, about 8%.

It is literally a “life and death proposition” and bloody expensive too. If you can’t manage every detail yourself, don’t go.

[Varda]

This reminds me of that idiot French couple who died at White Sands National Monument a couple years ago. I translated a French news version of the story and one of the comments mentioned similar idiots in the Alps trying to walk around on glaciers in tennis shoes.
These morons are everywhere.

[cyclotic]

When I’m hiking, I’ve been known to give water away if I come across someone who needs it, but if it was down to my last drop, I’d have to think about it.

I’ve been in situations where I know that my helping out saved someone from dehydration.

But, untrained people on a hiking trail are a whole lot different that an untrained person on Mt Everest.

[Scrambler Bob]

“I asked people for water and no one gave me any.
= = =

Hey. You just melt some snow!

[bgill]

Every year, we see pictures of the crowds on the mountain and in tents waiting. The lines are shorter at Disney. Ridiculous. It’s no longer special that only a few have experienced.

[Captain Peter Blood]

The money has taken over and Nepal makes an estimated $300 Million a year from this business.

In the process though Everest has/and is being destroyed by pollution, garbage and everything man brings with him.

A beautiful pristine mountain destroyed by tourism and man’s own hypocrisy.