“Pointless exercise in ego. “I climbed Mt. Everest.””
You be happier if he was eating a chicken friend steak, clutched his chest and fell over? Made him happy.
Yeah, made him happy as he literally stepped over the frozen corpses of climbers who died earlier.
Everest climbers are among the most selfish f***s in the world. I have no respect for them or their pointless endeavor.
All of these ego driven self aggrandizing exercises are the same. Claimed to “personal quests” they are anything but. They only serve as confirmation of how great a man (or, recently women) the person is.
And, if was truly a “personal quest” I would be fine with these folks killing themselves quietly, somewhere on their own.
But, when these “personal quests” go awry, it always seems to involve rescuers, helicopters, ships at sea, search parties, etc. The public paying for it is the least of the problem.
The deceased in this misadventure not doubt died anything but “happy.”
At least there is that.