I just don’t understand the allure Everest holds for “thrill seekers”. Everything is all roped and laddered up, just follow the giant Disneyland line up the mountain. There’s no personal accomplishment other than being able to afford a good guide and walk uphill in an oxygen depleted environment.
The other thing that really grates on me is that most of the people that climb it are of the vegan, liberal-progressive, greenie variety. They’re the type of people that support idiots like AOC and fear that global warming is going to wipe out mankind yet those same people have no problem leaving their trash and feces in what was once a pristine environment. They somehow justify their pollution and the ruination of a mountain that they revere because it suits their agenda. Since they can afford the $20-$50,000+ it costs to hire a guide they justify and excuse their despicable destruction of that sacred place because they can. They’ll come back here to the states and lecture us about their “amazing feat” and how connected to Mother Earth they are while conveniently leaving out the fact that they left hundreds of pounds of crap behind them polluting the mountain forever. They’re the type of hypocrites that believe the ends justify the means ONLY FOR THEM.....everyone else must abide by a completely different set of rules, rules that will be defined by the liberal mountain climbers and foisted upon the masses. Their lectures about the sacredness and beauty of Mt. Everest always conveniently omit their contribution to the destruction of that beauty.
I was recently reading an article about a bunch of mountaineers and Sherpa teams that, with the aid of helicopters, removed several TONS of trash from basecamp alone.
