Posted on 05/26/2019 2:51:27 PM PDT by Daffynition
When we say “Everest is crowded,” this is what we mean
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You can get sushi and green tea on top of Ole Mt. Fuji.
It would be safer to photoshop yourself into a picture of the summit and call it a day.
Kramer did the AIDS walk. I don’t think he’ll boast too much about it.(:V)
lots of bucket list items being checked..
A lot of buckets being filled with human waste ...
It clearly has become a lot of nonsense. It’s not the same as the first people to ever do it. It’s almost like they have a trail for them now.
“The only reason people do these things is in order to boast of it.”
Having run 3 marathons that’s not the case.
“So, it’s become a Disney ride.”
The death rate for those attempting the summit is still about 1%
Ridiculous. Jump in barrel of ice water, then go to WalMart on Black Friday ... with a plastic bag over your head. It would be the same experience.
Oh, my! That is simply astonishing!
The sanitation situation at a vagrants’ camp in SF about to happen.
“What does the line down look like?”
I’m imagining a big tube, like one of those construction-debris chutes, only a lot longer. Maybe Teflon-coated on the inside.
An Instagrammable moment.
“The only reason people do these things is in order to boast of it.”
Says the keyboard warrior . . .
“Wait til the bodies start to pile up along the way. I imagine it will be a gruesome climb to the top.”
Obvious technological solution: Set up a portable crematorium at Base Camp and include a “personal disposal charge” in the permit fee.
Oh wow. Who allowed THAT to happen?
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Paging Jerry Brown -
We need a Bullet Train!
I’d rather be home listening to Coltrane.
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Back in the day you could listen to Cosell.
Hillary and Norgay are to blame.
Trump’s fault!
With the 0bama economy, few would have had the time or resources.
If visiting the summit of Everest had become popular in Victorian times, the people of the nineteenth century would have engineered and built a railroad up there.
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