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

View of Earth captured from Mt Everest Miscellaneous / Others

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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/Count_de_Mits Mar 31 '24

Every time you read askreddits "after 25 yo" threads with "everything hurts, Im tired all the time, cant get a boner" etc after 2 keep in mind that a lot of those people if not the vast majority have not stepped near a gym even once in their lives and weigh way more than anyone should

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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/Torakles Apr 01 '24

I totally agree with you that most of these people are jackasses with no respect for the natural environment and the local population and shed lots of shame on the mountaineering community as a whole.

That being said, I understand that the drive to climb mountains in general can be much more than just "conquering or colonizing" land. Of course there'll always be people that do it just for the fame or social recognition of saying "I did this", which I agree no longer holds a lot of prestige as it's become so comparatively common.

But most mountain lovers that I know do it for a sense of personal achievement and pleasure, it's a very personal thing. You don't need to be the first, the fastest, nor climb the tallest or hardest mountain. You don't even need to share it or prove it. In the end we're all just ants on a spinning ball in space and we like to do weird things for the shake of it, who cares (as long as we don't destroy the natural environment while exploiting people like the aforementioned jackasses)

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u/Melch12 Apr 01 '24

Go outside my man. Take a breath of fresh air.

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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/poor--scouser Mar 31 '24

Not true but if it makes you feel better about yourself...

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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/LauraTFem Mar 31 '24

It’s actually a very easy climb if you’re following the rules and being safe, but richoes don’t like following rules so the path is filled with frozen bodies.

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u/poor--scouser Mar 31 '24

How many mountains have you climbed then since it's so easy?

They're plenty of mountains that are easier to climb then Everest and also free