Yes, those are ALL people.
Rush hour..? Might as well be.
Disneyland: No jets, no hiking, no oxygen bottles.
Posted on 05/27/2019 6:14:45 AM PDT by C19fan
Ed Dohring, a doctor from Arizona, had dreamed his whole life of reaching the top of Mount Everest. But when he summited a few days ago, he was shocked by what he saw.
Climbers were pushing and shoving to take selfies. The flat part of the summit, which he estimated at about the size of two Ping-Pong tables, was packed with 15 or 20 people. To get up there, he had to wait hours in a line, chest to chest, one puffy jacket after the next, on an icy, rocky ridge with a several-thousand foot drop. He even had to step around the body of a woman who had just died.
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Think BFR to Mars will be empty..?
IT WILL BE JAM-PACKED..!
When it blows up there will probably be people taking selfies.
Can’t see the real purpose with so many doing it. But everyone to his own.
Yes, those are ALL people.
Rush hour..? Might as well be.
Disneyland: No jets, no hiking, no oxygen bottles.
Just a collective ego trip for a bunch of people who are bored out of their minds. It’s been a while since I read something this pathetic.
Each get a Darwin award. The longer they stay at 29,000 feet the more hypoxic they become. What follows is acidosis and dehydration. It is not surprising that when they try to descend, lugging all their gear, even very fit climbers suddenly die. And for what? An insignia on their jacket? Some selfish, narcissistic compulsion to “conquer Everest”?
The place physically closest to God as they have a chance to survey His majestic creation and instead they want to stare into a camera lens so they can make empty boasts.
Somewhere between sick and sad.
Yes, you are correct on this one. They are bored...got tons of money (figure the R/T and support required will cost you in the range of $45k to $75k), and need something on their resume that shows accomplishment. This might have meant something back in the 1970s, but I’ll bet there are at least 2,000 folks residing in California who can claim they’ve climbed the mountain. Personally, I think the guy or gal doing the Appalachian Trail probably deserves just as much recognition, and you can probably do that for less than $2k.
You obviously have not been on the Small Small World ride...
There is no more selfish a person on earth than a mountain climber.
Stepping over a dead person.
To take the photo of yourself that THAT guy some minutes ago had been trying to take.
WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING TO US...?
"Yes, I prefer DYING to not having the appearance of living the way I have forced my 'friends' to expect me to live."
None of the things on my “Bucket List” have such a high probability of killing me.
You don’t see too many people lining up for a two-month dogsled trio in -70 degree cold.
Nowadays climbing Mt. Everest is no different from getting a tattoo. “Look at me! Look at me! Check out my Instagram feed!” It gives one the sense of being unique, so much so that everyone’s doing it.
“An insignia on their jacket? Some selfish, narcissistic compulsion to “conquer Everest”?”
Some people want to push life to the limit and experience new things that few others do. It’s why we have civilization, inventions, spacecraft, etc, etc. New experiences and pushing oneself unlocks new pathways in the mind and leads to innovation.
If everyone was too chicken to experience new and dangerous things, humanity would have died out long ago
Sometime like the last quarter mile or less to the summit requires ropes, and that's where the real bottle neck is. Literally, it's a kings of the mountain game at that point.
And don't forget the growing piles of frozen doo-doo, not to mention all the trash.
Occasionally, "feel good" stories are run about a group carrying x amount of material more off the mountain than what they brought for the trip.
Sorry ... dogsled TRIP.
Just the permit alone is 11k.
This is a cash cow for Napal.
There is no more selfish a person on earth than a mountain climber.
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