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200 climbers attempted to summit yesterday. 2 died. One was a man from UT who took a fall while taking pictures shortly after he summitted. The other was a woman who died after being delayed by the crowd during her descent.
I'll stay home and avoid the crowds. That doesn't appeal to me in the least. EVEREST

I have no interest in Mt. Everest. No big sheep. No big mulies. Not even a dang goat or ibex. I see no point and rest my case.

i hear tell there's some good money in organizing & dealing with those climbs.
lot's of folks with money wants to engage in the "high" adventure.

I don’t like heights anyway!

I like my Oxygen.

There was an HD picture you could zoom around I saw awhile back. The amount of trash up there is crazy.

I heard a couple of guys died in traffic on their way to work today.

Regardless, Everest does not appeal to me either. It is a high risk tourist trap where they pay guys to drag them up hills.

Not on my bucket list.

They can have it.

DF

Wife lost her cousin on that mountain some years ago. They wrote a book and made a movie about it. He was a guide with a lot of experience, but rich thrill seekers without that experience were his Achilles heel. He's still up there. He left a wife and two kids.

Even Bigfoot does not go Everest any more.

I saw that movie, seemed like a good guy...and a decent flick.

I seen a movie where the guy lived in school bus and played with bears, then one day they ate him.

At least they died doing what they loved.

Yep.

Dropping dead while fishing is one thing........falling 10,500 feet to your death is quite another!

I don't know how long it takes to fall that far, but it's plenty long to think "this was really stupid".

At least I died doing what I looooooooooooooooooo................



and a minute later.......................oooooooooooooooove SPLAT!

people who are in search of excitement can find it on that adventure to the top, if they have the funds to pay for it.

A number of years ago, there was a guy from the Midwest Center of Sport and Culture who made what seemed like a yearly attempt to get to the top. I don't think that he ever made it, but the CR Gazette was completely and totally fascinated with the story.

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.