Last edited by raisedbywolves; 11-17-2022 at 03:39 PM.
Yep vegans can do everything, including die on Everest. Well done.
Yep, I'm cool down here with all my fingers, toes and my face.
I am, as well. Why would anyone attempt such a thing?
Totally fascinated with all things Everest.
That's Beck Weathers, the doctor that survived the 1996 storm that inspired the recent Everest movie.
If you want to see really creepy stuff, google bodies on Everest. The bodies don't really decay, they just freeze, and for the most part they leave them where they fall. Pics are NSFW.
There has been controversy over the fact that people sometimes climb over people who are dying, instead of helping them. David Sharp is a example of someone that this happened to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sharp_(mountaineer) It kind of makes you sad for humanity, but then you also realize that it's sometimes your life or theirs on the mountain.
The thing that I do not get is, people actually pay money to climb the mountain!
I kind of feel bad for the people that die on Everest, partly because they are stuck there forever, and they really thought they could do it. The other part of me doesn't feel bad for them. Most of them are adrenaline junkies, and they knew the dangers ahead of time. When you need to be supplemented oxygen while climbing, you are ignoring natures way of saying "your body is not meant to do this shit".
I feel bad for the Sherpas and the guides who leave kids behind. The selfish climbers - not so much.
I feel bad for the kids that lost parents, the wives/partners/husbands left behind, but not the guides. The guides knew their job was dangerous. A guide on any other mountain I can empathize with, but not Everest. There are reminders everywhere in the form of dead bodies of former hikers. It's just not safe. Period.
The thing is the Sherpas pretty much rely on the climbing tourism to live. It has changed their lives. I have very mixed feelings. I don't think Everest should be a tourist attraction, but I think it has helped many Nepalese families to have a decent quality of life. They consider it like a birth right...their father's were Sherpas and taught them to climb at a young age, and they do the same for their kids. Certain families are known as 'the Sherpas to get' and have a reputation and make their entire living from it.
The problem is when climbing Everest went from being only elite climbers, to basically anyone that could pay the fee.
It really sucked that the Asian lady had to die and it was supposed to be like her final climb or something like that.
Gooble goble gooble goble one of us one of us. t(-_-)t
I read somewhere that a Sherpa's widow was unable to file an insurance death claim because she couldn't "prove" he died. I mean WTF? He went to work one day on Everest and now he's dead and she's supposed to go find the body so she can get her insurance claim? I think the people who employ the sherpas need to do more to take care of these employees' families if they die on the job.
I HATE people that do stupid shit like this, being referred to as heroic.
How is risking the lives of others & potentially placing your family in lifelong medical/medivac debt or lifelong grief & loss, "heroic"?
It's as self-centered & selfish as fuck.
That Everest movie was on the other night & every fucking minute of it PISSED ME OFF.
Fuck all of these people.
Whether they're meat eaters or vegans they're all exactly the same kind of person anyway > arseholes.
This kinda stuff makes no sense to me. They say your body starts to die when you reach a certain altitude. Then you have to depend on someone else to get you down before you die. Screw that! It amazes that knowing that fact, ppl still wanna climb it. Plus, I can't stand the cold where I live, no way am I going into subzero conditions.
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