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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Here is the question I haven’t figured out. What time do these uppity twits get off work. Got to take forever to get all those special clothes on, ride out miles from their subdivision, meet up and get in my way.
I think back to 1923 when George Lee Mallory and his friend attempted to climb Everest. I don’t think they know yet whether either ever made it.
It once was a romantic notion of adventure, to do something no one had done.
Now a beautiful mountain has been destroyed and become a tourist attraction. No telling how much trash and debris is there, how many bodies are there and yet they keep coming in bigger numbers contributing to the destruction of the mountain they claim to love and want to preserve.
What a mess and gross amount of hypocrisy.
Can you imagine a trans-, Crossfit, Vegan, Bernie-bot, mountain climber? (shudders)
Traffics jam of people, cold conditions, possible severe weather changes and greater chances of dying just to climb a damn mountain. Nope!
Back in the 90s the cost of that ego trip was $250,000 ...
Yep...bicycle riders. Most are quick to ignore traffic laws in my area.
I’m also quick to say...I never wore spandex...just shorts and a t-shirt...when I rode.
Demonstrate your rugged individualism by joining a convoy of people all paying to do the same thing.
That’s the ticket!
I fail to feel your pain, Doc.
The “Like” part is superfluous.
That dickhole behavior on the part of the spandex clad, butt sniffing, gear queers is the reason I quit the roads altogether and went back to mt. biking.
I’ll believe it when it’s done. Much easier to make a sketch of something like that than to build it.
lol
There was a guy, Fred A. Birchmore, in 1935 that climbed the Matterhorn bare handed because he was curious to see the top, but had no idea that it had only been climbed once with the best climbing gear of the time.
The guy discovered a wristwatch at the top, and took it with him. When he got to a local gusthaus, he showed the watch, told the keeper were he had found it. No one believed him, but when contacted the owner who was as the first guy to climb the mountain ...
The guy then went on with his one speed bicycle (Bucephalus) around the world - when he was in Egypt some one stole a petal nevertheless he kept going - even over the Himalayas.
Around the World on a Bicycle
by Fred A. Birchmore
It does not sound like the doctor from Arizona was expecting it to be like that. I can’t even begin to imagine.
In my mind I thought it was such a hard thing to do that few people were doing it. I imagined each climber and their guides with no one else around.
Not something I would ever want to do but I wonder how many would be going if they knew this is what it is like? Now that the story is out I would guess some making plans may decided not to.
I did read that it is not like this all the time but certain windows of good days to make the climb mean traffic jam.
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