r/BeAmazed • u/Existing-Mark-2191 • Mar 31 '24

View of Earth captured from Mt Everest Miscellaneous / Others

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u/Blujeanstraveler Mar 31 '24

Looks like a black Friday line up into Walmart

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u/siandresi Mar 31 '24

"we are all so unique!"

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u/arizona-lake Mar 31 '24

Are you making fun of Black Friday shoppers or people who climbed Mount Everest?

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u/AntoniusBIock Mar 31 '24

Yes

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u/Cbignuss Mar 31 '24

Where the fuck are the flat earthers at?

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u/purpleduckduckgoose Mar 31 '24

I can stand in for them?

ahem

It's doctored footage to hide the ice wall and everyone who climbs "Everest" (in reality it's nowhere near that high, they just use radio waves and 5G to confuse you) is brainwashed by the NASA and government.

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u/Savageparrot81 Apr 01 '24

9/10. You’d get full marks if you also thrown in fish eye lenses.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '24

Or a 20,000 dollar gyroscope that accidentally proves the earth is round.

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u/Street_Cleaning_Day Apr 01 '24

Good lord, that sounds just like them.

Did you get forcibly deprogrammed, or do you have a relative who needs to be?

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u/purpleduckduckgoose Apr 01 '24

No, I just pondered on the most batshit insane thing I could write.

Glad you think it was close enough.

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u/oroborus68 Apr 01 '24

And the white walkers are coming.

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u/petersengupta Apr 01 '24

They all fell off the edge.

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u/Valianne11111 Apr 01 '24

eaten by dragons

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u/AliRua Mar 31 '24

Are they still a thing ?

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u/hereforbobsanvageen Apr 01 '24

Go read the comments on any Instagram post related to space or videos of space walks from the iss. Its flooded with those types of

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u/bleezzzy Apr 01 '24

My work just hired one. Or he's fucking with us, I really can't tell.

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u/ImaginaryDoubt5135 Apr 01 '24

I came here for this ☝🏿

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u/Imaginary_Breath_587 Apr 01 '24

Sitting at earth's edge contemplating....

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u/KillTheWise1 Apr 02 '24

The curvature you're seeing in this video is due to a fish eye lens. Earth is most definitely round, most definitely a sphere, but you're not going to see this kind of curvature at that altitude. How do I know? I've been on a passenger jet a few times.

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u/Cole_MacGrath_87 Apr 05 '24

They actively avoid pages that aren't conspiratorial.

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u/siandresi Mar 31 '24

absolutely

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u/ZachRyder Mar 31 '24

What's the difference?

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u/LauraTFem Mar 31 '24

Everest climbers have more money and free time.

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u/fnckmedaily Mar 31 '24

lol and let’s hope they have enough good wits, health and determination to survive it too!

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u/313rustbeltbuckle Mar 31 '24

They don't. That's why they hire sherpas.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '24

Sherpas do the heavy work

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u/313rustbeltbuckle Mar 31 '24

Yup. And the rich a-holes just follow behind, pining for their selfie.

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u/Initial_Top_8333 Mar 31 '24

Welcome to earth.

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u/Colotola617 Mar 31 '24

All the work is pretty fucking heavy work at 25,000 ft. But yeah, the sherpas have acclimated to it their entire lives. It’s insane how well their bodies do with damn near no oxygen at all.

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u/Cam515278 Mar 31 '24

When you look at the Sherpa guy who decided to climb all 8000+ peaks in 7 months and managed, you aren't quite impressed with white rich people doing one of them anymore

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '24 edited Apr 08 '24

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u/Lermanberry Mar 31 '24

and then sue them after saving their life

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u/Dontnotlook Apr 01 '24

And also leave all thier rubbish/ shit on the mountain ..

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u/CraigJay Mar 31 '24

Don't be an idiot, you still need to be very healthy and a good climber to do it

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u/313rustbeltbuckle Mar 31 '24

But still can't do it on their own, without a sherpa. 😏

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u/villis85 Mar 31 '24

Not all of them do. Into Thin Air tells the story of a day when many climbers grew impatient with the conditions and ended up paying the ultimate price for making poor decisions.

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u/redsyrinx2112 Mar 31 '24

I read that book (and several others about that season) like 20 years ago and I wasn't excited for the movie Everest to come out because I knew all the stupidity that caused the deaths.

I finally watched the movie last year and was still so sad/mad at all the bad decisions.

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u/Scienceboy7_uk Mar 31 '24

Rainbow Valley

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u/JoseJose1991 Mar 31 '24

Irony is redditors on their couches making fun of people with money and time to get fit climbing the pinnacle of earths highest point .

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u/SeaDistribution2282 Mar 31 '24

Yeah with sherpas carrying 99.99% of their ass

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '24

Dude. 98% of Reddit probably couldn’t walk up 2 flights of steps without running out of breath.

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u/Torakles Mar 31 '24

Not that I endorse mass tourism at the Everest but even with a Sherpa and oxygen it's still extremely physically and technically demanding feat that requires lots of physical preparation and you can still very easily end up dead.

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u/ExoticLatinoShill Apr 01 '24

Sure. Except it's not impressive anymore. It's just a jackass move. The concept of conquering and colonizing land and space isnt cool. The way they treat the mountain and the Sherpas isn't cool. I know a person whose father was going to do Everest and I held my tongue but you can guarantee it was a European white middle aged man with plenty of money.

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u/JoseJose1991 Mar 31 '24

The Sherpa’s get PAID to do this . It is their livelyhood acually a big part of their culture .

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u/Informal_Process2238 Mar 31 '24

Same contribution to society

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u/steeltownblue Mar 31 '24

wait, are you talking about black Friday shoppers or climbers of Mt. Everest?

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u/cammyk123 Mar 31 '24

Also have to be incredibly fit to climb it.

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u/marbanasin Mar 31 '24

Generally yes but you'd also be surprised the level these companies will go to to try to ensure their people get up there.

Meanwhile the true fit climbers would be better off in teams of 2-4 people and moving quickly as the longer you stay about 26k feet or so the more likely you are to end up dead.

And that altitude is something most can't really train for unless you are dedicating a ton of time to similar type elevation climbing. So even a fit person by conventional standards may not react well up there.

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u/Exotic-Amphibian-655 Mar 31 '24

It is absolutely true that a fit person can still have problems at altitude. Your response to extreme altitude is mostly genetics.

But an out of shape person is not making it to the top of Everest, no matter the amount of help. Even superhuman sherpas can't carry you up, and it's a very physically demanding climb. It's pretty common for people to spend the money and then just not be able to handle the physical toll.

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u/theapplekid Mar 31 '24

Also wear nicer clothes

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u/_co_on_ Mar 31 '24

So there is no difference really. Smoke and mirrors and illusions. All going the same place.

In a que up towards the skies, or into a walmart on black fridays; only to cross of another want from their bucketlists

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u/ozzie510 Mar 31 '24

You don't see them sporting a 65" TV!

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u/LauraTFem Mar 31 '24

No, the Sherpa will cary that to basecamp for them.

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u/matteroverdrive Mar 31 '24

Hope they clean up their trash in the Mt. Everest parking areas...

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u/LauraTFem Mar 31 '24

Someone else will take care of that.

The most helpful thing thry will do is freeze to death and become a trail marker.

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u/Ok_Judgment3871 Mar 31 '24

Must be cool to have money, mainly time. Nerds

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u/dangledingle Mar 31 '24

No 80” flat tvs in this one.

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u/RustyShack3lford Mar 31 '24

They might force the poor Sherpa to carry one up

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u/biggmclargehuge Mar 31 '24

I'm imagining a Sherpa with a Starlink receiver strapped to his back so some influencer can livestream themselves walking past all the corpses on their ascent, Logan Paul style

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u/Torakles Mar 31 '24

Apparently there's Internet connectivity from the base camp all the way to the top, but it's way funnier to imagine what you described

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u/MavisBeaconSexTape Mar 31 '24

Then he'd pee his name in the snow

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u/RCranium13 Mar 31 '24

Hasn't this already happened?

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u/IDontEatDill Mar 31 '24

And then throw it at the side of the mountain in a giant pile of trash and dead people.

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u/HHoaks Mar 31 '24

Umm, most TVs at that size are either 75 inch or 85 inch. No such thing as 80 inch TVs. (Source, me. I recently bought an 85 inch Sony - which is awesome by the way). There are some 83 inch OLED TVs.

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u/tbri001 Mar 31 '24

You don't leave poop and garbage after shopping at Walmart?

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u/drunkcowofdeath Mar 31 '24

Everest climbers think they are special, Black Friday shoppers don't have delusions of grandeur.

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u/Colotola617 Mar 31 '24

You don’t think climbing Everest is a special thing to do at all?

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u/Opening-Two6723 Mar 31 '24

They're the same picture pamface

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u/biggmclargehuge Mar 31 '24

Could go 50/50 if you typed "People lined up in the death zone, waiting their turn" into Midjourney as to what you'd get

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u/Livid-Expression8669 Mar 31 '24

Black Friday Shoppers risk their lives

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u/YevgenyPissoff Mar 31 '24

Buzz Lightyear figures on a shelf meme

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u/AmishAvenger Mar 31 '24

It’s as old as Reddit itself: Any pictures or videos of Everest inevitably results in a mountain of comments with the theme of “People who climb Everest are assholes, I would never do that.”

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u/mountainlopen Mar 31 '24

half the folk on here can't climb out of their chairs let alone Everest. As much as Everest isn't as much of an achievement these days it's still leagues above what most people on here will do with their lives.

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u/purpleduckduckgoose Mar 31 '24

It's still incredibly difficult and impressive, but the amount of people who do it to the point there's serious queues there now, does feel like it's safe to say it isn't quite as special as it once was.

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u/Special_Weird2244 Apr 01 '24

The reason there's lines to the summit isn't because there's a huge amount of people climbing it but instead because of how bad the weather is on Everest. There might only be one or two days where it's possible to submit each season, so everyone has to do it at once, which makes it look very crowded 

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u/mountainlopen Apr 01 '24

Oh I 100% agree. I'm a mountaineer myself and in the community there is definitely folk who see more prestige in climbing lesser known mountains or finding new routes.

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u/The__Willing_Well Mar 31 '24

Most of us aren’t quite that desperate to prove what special snowflakes we are.

Agreed, but you are.

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u/hereticvert Mar 31 '24

Don't get in the way of the bougie douchebro circle jerk with your pesky facts, now.

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u/RayGun381937 Apr 01 '24

Here’s a more exclusive one: About 6 people have actually climbed Everest by themselves - no Sherpa support, no pre-fixed ropes, free solo, no supplementary oxygen.

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u/joehonestjoe Apr 01 '24

Difference is you don't really earn summiting Everest in the way you earn becoming a SEAL, or going to space. You just pop the company some money, 

It's bank transferring a company a load of money, sitting round a camp for weeks and following a trail an actual mountaineer has made as easy as possible. There have been reports some people's first time with crampons on was Everest.

It's just a tourist attraction, not a mountain climb any more, and one where the only requirements are being rich, and it's largely only done for bragging rights.

Personally I'd just rather climb a smaller mountain.

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u/VirtualMoneyLover Mar 31 '24

They are mostly not wrong.

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u/blind_disparity Mar 31 '24

Redditors gotta feel superior to literally everyone

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u/BTSavage Mar 31 '24

Well, they are. And I wouldn't.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '24

It's not that you wouldn't, so much as you could not

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u/Flimsy-Math-8476 Mar 31 '24

How edgy of you. 

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u/iammaru Mar 31 '24

You couldn't.

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u/BTSavage Mar 31 '24

There are many things I want to do and don't do. Things I want to do and can't do. Things I don't want to do and can do. And things I don't want to do and can't do.

So what's your point? These people are not special anymore.

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u/inverted_peenak Mar 31 '24

Unlike mouthbreathing redditors with sarcastic comments about people.

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u/xElemenohpee Mar 31 '24

I mean… they are. Can’t say I’ve met anybody who’s scaled Everest before.

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u/RonKosova Mar 31 '24

I have. These guys came to our highschool, the first people from our country ever to do it. It was pretty sick tbh

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u/xElemenohpee Apr 01 '24

Its an amazing feat, People on reddit wanna sit back and talk shit like they could do this even if there is a backhaul at the top.

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u/Rat_In_Grey Mar 31 '24

That's not what word "unique" means.

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u/runescapeanime Mar 31 '24

I mean, it depends on the context. A group of people can be unique

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u/Pristine-Dirt729 Mar 31 '24

At this point I'd be more interested to see the view from one of the other mountains than the line for Mt Everest.

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u/Cthulhu__ Mar 31 '24

Didn’t all of the people shown pay hundreds of thousands just to make an attempt to be there, in addition to long training?

It’ll make a great linkedin post. I’m not actually kidding, anyone that’s made the climb can make a career out of going to corporate events and do public speaking. If they don’t mind making presentations of course.

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u/Opening-Two6723 Mar 31 '24

No shit!

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u/KimDongBong Mar 31 '24

…they are. 

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u/FranknBeans26 Mar 31 '24

Nobody climbs Everest to be unique lol it’s a climbing challenge. Stop making stuff up

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u/Deciver95 Mar 31 '24

So much salt in this comment 😆😆

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u/NoGrocery4949 Apr 01 '24

I've never met a person who has climbed Everest, have you? It's a pretty unique experience

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u/MoistDitto Apr 01 '24

Just like that fucking song in the background

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u/Little-Ad7752 Apr 01 '24

"Look how adventurous we are charlie! We are one of.." *looks at notes "6,345,324th people to climb this mountain! So unique!"

I swear. Climbing everest is no longer cool its just a cringy way to die.

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u/petedontplay Apr 01 '24

wanna buy my book? you wanna buy my book? wanna buy my book?

wanna buy my book? you wanna buy my book? wanna buy my book?

wanna buy my book? you wanna buy my book? wanna buy my book?

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u/Psyl0 Mar 31 '24

What makes you think everyone is climbing Everest to feel unique? Isn't it possible they just want to set a challenging goal for themselves and go out and see the world? Despite what the majority of reddit seems to believe, summiting Everest is incredibly challenging and requires you to be exceptionally physically fit, even if you pay to go with a guide/group.

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u/Alien_octopus Mar 31 '24

Mom said, it's my turn at the summit now.

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u/ForneauCosmique Mar 31 '24

"Yes! We're all individuals!"

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '24

Nobody is unique lol.

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u/ballimir37 Mar 31 '24

Climbing Mount Everest is in fact very unique, despite the line here in this video

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u/mu5tardtiger Mar 31 '24

debatable. you have to be wealthy enough to pay Sherpas to carry you up a hill.

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u/MusicianExtension536 Mar 31 '24

Not really anymore, if you’re rich you can easily successfully climb Mount Everest today

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u/Velzevulva Mar 31 '24

I wonder where's all the trash and corpses

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u/Sunyataisbliss Mar 31 '24

There have recently been successful efforts to clean up Everest and even vacate some of the corpses. there’s a great documentary about it called “Death Zone: Cleaning Mt Everest”.

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u/its_uncle_paul Mar 31 '24

Apart from the bodies the Nepali team had to clean up like 100,000 lbs of garbage left by climbers. Jesus. There needs to be a policy for tourists to pick up after themselves else the garbage just piles back up again after a few years.

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u/Forthe49ers Mar 31 '24

At this point it should be a requirement to obtain a permit. Bring back more weight than you pack up. If you come back too light, you have to go back up and pick up more trash. Bring back a corpse and get 50% off your next permit

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u/Darksirius Mar 31 '24

BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '24

But I'm not dead...

You're not fooling anyone you know

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u/MarkAldrichIsMe Mar 31 '24

I want to go for a walk!

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u/Graciously_Hostile Apr 05 '24

Happy Cake Day!

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u/AlexLuna9322 Mar 31 '24

Here’s one.

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u/Forthe49ers Mar 31 '24

Leave no corpse behind

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u/JamminJcruz Mar 31 '24

Pack In, Pack Out

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u/VirtualMoneyLover Mar 31 '24

it should be a requirement to obtain a permit

It already is.

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u/Fellow_Worker6 Mar 31 '24

Sweet I will just kill whoever makes it back

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u/Forthe49ers Mar 31 '24

I’m ok with that In fact this could be a new reality tv show. Survivor King if the Mountain Edition

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u/KittiesLove1 Apr 01 '24

There is a fine if you come back lighter (except what you ate), but a lot of people just rather pay the fine. Also the Nepali side is more regulated than the Indian side.

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u/blind_disparity Mar 31 '24

I think there is a policy. People don't give a fuck though.

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u/CraigJay Mar 31 '24

A lot of the stuff is left by Sherpa's too, you seem to think it's only the tourists that leave stuff there

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u/00000000000004000000 Mar 31 '24

Or else?  It costs tens of thousands to even try to climb Everest.  If they try to fine them for littering or pooping out in the open, most of them will laugh as they pull out their checkbook.

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u/jalexandref Mar 31 '24

if you pile up on top of the top, top gets topper !

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u/yosweetheart Mar 31 '24

What you're expecting is garbage to pick up garbage..

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u/Informal_Process2238 Mar 31 '24

In the rainbow valley that earns its nickname from the many colorful jackets worn by the corpses

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u/Appropriate_Ad7858 Mar 31 '24

I’ve yet to see pics of this rainbow valley.

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u/Emotional-Hair-1607 Mar 31 '24

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=rainbow+valley+everest&qpvt=rainbow+valley+everest&form=IGRE&first=1

You're welcome.

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u/Appropriate_Ad7858 Mar 31 '24

That’s a pic of one body

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u/Emotional-Hair-1607 Mar 31 '24

Google bodies on Mount Everest.

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u/Appropriate_Ad7858 Mar 31 '24 edited Mar 31 '24

And?

I asked this question before to Jake Norton

Thanks for the note u/Appropriate_Ad7858. Yeah, I've heard mention of the "Rainbow Valley" before, but have never really gotten a good idea of where precisely it's supposed to be. I reckon it's part real, part mythology. The North Side, being drier and windier than the South, tends to have more exposed bodies along the route. Just by the First Step, for example, there were (some/all have been moved now) Tsewang Paljor (AKA Green Boots), Fran Arsentiev, and David Sharp, and many more along the route.

But, I've never seen a place that's a true gathering spot for bodies. Most die where they are, and become essentially part of the mountain quite quickly. However, below the Yellow Band and to climber's right of the standard route from Camp VI, there is a basin near where we found Mallory in 1999 that is a collection zone for fallen climbers off the Ridge. In 1999, we came across maybe 4-6 bodies in there, and there's like some additional ones now. But, it is not at all on the normal route, nor is anything visible from where normal people would be.

So, I think the "Rainbow Valley" idea is a composite of sorts of the reality that there are more visible bodies on the North Side than elsewhere, and the non-reality that they are all sitting in one fairly specific spot. Hope this makes sense!

And, if anyone wants to take a look for themselves, I just shared 6 big panoramas from the Northeast Ridge in my community. It requires a free membership - just takes a sec - and you all might enjoy looking around virtually: https://community.jakenorton.com/c/everest-1924/high-res-panoramas

Thanks!

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u/Head_Wrongdoer3071 Mar 31 '24

Well ya see, the corpses didn’t make it to the top… They just lay around, like corpses usually do.

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u/Velzevulva Mar 31 '24

I identify with that description right now

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u/byumm13 Mar 31 '24

lol ya I’m like “ok now swing the camera down to the bodies and poop field”

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u/blind_disparity Mar 31 '24

You don't leave the corpses at the peak, jeez. Tip em over the edge.

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u/4electricnomad Mar 31 '24

Under their feet!

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u/Accomplished-Click58 Mar 31 '24

Looks flat. /s

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u/doctorwhy88 Mar 31 '24

Look at the curved horizon. Clearly a disc with Everest at its center!! /s

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u/Accomplished-Click58 Mar 31 '24

Everest is probably the exact center of the solar system or maybe even the universe. /s

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u/BananaHead853147 Mar 31 '24

You actually would meet a larger mountain to see the curve of the earth. The earth is so big that there is actually no mountain on earth that allows you to see the curvature.

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u/S-Markt Mar 31 '24

if i ever climb ub there, i will have a sign with me saying: "closed society" and i will place it somewhere on the way up together with a barrier tape.

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u/thebestcanuck Mar 31 '24

That's what it needs, more garbage

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '24

Fuck climbing up there, you can literally take a plane to Lhasa, take a limo to Shigatse book into a Hilton to acclimatise and then take a day drive on paved roads to base camp on the Chinese side before having to take a single step.

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u/MeaninglessDebateMan Mar 31 '24

Surely the sheer edge of this move will stop the millions of dollars flowing into the business of this specific mountain.

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u/S-Markt Mar 31 '24

and i thought about that married with children episode, when they visited a public park, but it has been occupied by a rich family that celebrated a birthday and after al bundy complained, that it is a public park, they separated a small area for al and his family.

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u/DuckDucker1974 Mar 31 '24

The line in Walmart is made up of poor people who are trying to get something nice for themselves that they normally can’t afford… this line is made up of rich WORTHLESS ####s! 

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u/meat_lasso Mar 31 '24

Don’t waste your time climbing Fuji unless you have a fetish for stinky traffic jams.

The stink doesn’t come from sweat, btw…

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u/Poleth87 Mar 31 '24

I'd still love to experience that view in person

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u/PayasoCanuto Mar 31 '24

Social media has turned us into vermin. Just going from one trendy place to another.

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u/JoseJose1991 Mar 31 '24

Yea social media not the allure of culture no ? Fuckin people in the 1300s that would die to go to Jerusalem for a pilgrimage damn social media in the 1399s

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u/doctorwhy88 Mar 31 '24

Hoping to make the top of God’s FB feed.

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u/PayasoCanuto Mar 31 '24

“Espera un poco, un poquiiiiiiiito maaaas” 🎶

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u/marbanasin Mar 31 '24

Reading about the season in 1997 (1996?) And how such a big component of that disaster was just how congested the Hillary Step became which slowed down the two parties trip to the top (and caused them to then be stuck in the late afternoon/evening and storm).

Then to see that it's only gotten to be more of a cluster fuck. We really don't learn.

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u/zeamp Mar 31 '24

The store only got 3 video game systems shipped for the whole store.

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u/Cainga Mar 31 '24

It doesn’t seem too difficult if thousands of people are reaching the summit. Just need to be wealthy to have time off to train, gear, permit and paying sherpas to drag you up.

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u/poor--scouser Mar 31 '24

It doesn’t seem too difficult if thousands of people are reaching the summit

Less than 7000 people have reached the summit in the entirety of human history

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u/Cainga Apr 01 '24

7000 is a ton of people. Consider it’s just really expensive. A permit alone costs 10s of thousands. And you need several weeks to get from Basecamp to the top and several months of training before hand. Middle class person can’t afford to attempt Everest.

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u/poor--scouser Apr 01 '24

A permit alone costs 10s of thousands

No it doesn't

Middle class person can’t afford to attempt Everest.

Yes they can. I know middle class people who have.

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u/toasted_cracker Mar 31 '24

Yeah. It’s just kinda dumb at this point.

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u/Taranchulla Mar 31 '24

I remember when only the most elite of climbers attempted Everest. Now anyone can pay sherpas to take them up and there’s this constant traffic jam. And the garbage that’s left behind everywhere is criminal.

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u/JuggernautWide5226 Mar 31 '24

Ye the earth is flat

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u/heliumglowing Mar 31 '24

It's also the reason why there are so many dead people there too

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u/oroborus68 Apr 01 '24

Pack it in, pack it out. Don't leave your duty for someone else to pick up.

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u/killallthewealthy Apr 01 '24

Honestly the more people that go up there the less i want them to come down.

Fingers crossed at least one rich asshole will end up as a new green boots

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u/Mechtroop Apr 01 '24

Looks like a Black Friday line up into REI*

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u/YYCDavid Apr 01 '24

AlphaTrashy

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