Anyone wanna climb Mt. Everest with me?

[Mai72]

My dream is to one day climb Mt. Everest. Might do it with my shirt off, so I can show that six pack while I'm 30k feet at the peak. Anyone ready for an adventure?

 

[DietDrThunder]

Once they have the cable lift installed, then maybe.

 

[zinfamous]

Mt Everest these days is nothing but something that novice millionaires can gloat over. The primary route is so thoroughly groomed and crowded with hundreds of such tourists every season. The only requirement today is affording the ~$20k minimum cost to gear up and register for a spot on the guided trip...where a Sherpa is pretty much doing all the work, anyway.

 

[Mai72]

Mt Everest these days is nothing but something that novice millionaires can gloat over. The primary route is so thoroughly groomed and crowded with hundreds of such tourists every season. The only requirement today is affording the ~$20k minimum cost to gear up and register for a spot on the guided trip...where a Sherpa is pretty much doing all the work, anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEcHBFs-qME

Sad video of a Canadian woman (Born in India) who tried to climb Mt. Everest. Zero experience, and no idea of the dangers that are on that mountain. She made it to the top but succumbed to a lack of air and freezing temps on the way down. At one point in the video you can see a line of climbers who are all trying to reach the top. It looked like a damn amusement ride. Many died coming down. I didn't know that there are 200 plus dead bodies strewn all over the mountain side.

 

[zinfamous]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEcHBFs-qME

Sad video of a Canadian woman (Born in India) who tried to climb Mt. Everest. Zero experience, and no idea of the dangers that are on that mountain. She made it to the top but succumbed to a lack of air and freezing temps on the way down. At one point in the video you can see a line of climbers who are all trying to reach the top. It looked like a damn amusement ride. Many died coming down. I didn't know that there are 200 plus dead bodies strewn all over the mountain side.

Yep. Of course you can still die there because the weather is brutal and still rather unpredictable even in the better parts of the season. But that's kinda the point: deaths are only getting worse because you have all sorts of morons that want to be the "First ___!" to do it. When blind folks and paraplegics and octogenarians are doing this, I stop thinking it's an inspirational thing worthy of honor and respect, but now just something that any fool can claim to have done, as long as they can afford it.

There are still real pros out there, though, that make their own routes up the mountain.

If you want to do something cool today, you should try to trek across Antarctica, solo.

 

[IronWing]

Once they have the cable lift installed, then maybe.

1. Construct inclined railway to north side of mountain.
2. Bore incline beneath summit and continue railway.
3. Bore rise to vicinity of summit.
4. Install hoist.
5. Build glass-domed restaurant and viewing platform.
6. Pressurize the whole shebang.
7. Offer guided walks to summit.
8. Sell t-shirts.

 

[DietDrThunder]

Yep. Of course you can still die there because the weather is brutal and still rather unpredictable even in the better parts of the season. But that's kinda the point: deaths are only getting worse because you have all sorts of morons that want to be the "First ___!" to do it. When bling folks and paraplegics and octogenarians are doing this, I stop thinking it's an inspirational thing worthy of honor and respect, but now just something that any fool can claim to have done, as long as they can afford it.

There are still real pros out there, though, that make their own routes up the mountain.

If you want to do something cool today, you should try to trek across Antarctica, solo.

I'll wait for someone to build a highway across with several heated rest stops along the way.

 

[Mai72]

Yep. Of course you can still die there because the weather is brutal and still rather unpredictable even in the better parts of the season. But that's kinda the point: deaths are only getting worse because you have all sorts of morons that want to be the "First ___!" to do it. When bling folks and paraplegics and octogenarians are doing this, I stop thinking it's an inspirational thing worthy of honor and respect, but now just something that any fool can claim to have done, as long as they can afford it.

There are still real pros out there, though, that make their own routes up the mountain.

If you want to do something cool today, you should try to trek across Antarctica, solo.

Yep, but TBH those crevasses scare the crap out of me. Imagine falling in one of those? I watched a video titled "I should be dead" and two experienced climbers fell into a crevasse. The one died on impact and the other just barely escapped.

 

[zinfamous]

Once they have the cable lift installed, then maybe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_cmw2bIJEw

 

[Kaido]

Mt Everest these days is nothing but something that novice millionaires can gloat over. The primary route is so thoroughly groomed and crowded with hundreds of such tourists every season. The only requirement today is affording the ~$20k minimum cost to gear up and register for a spot on the guided trip...where a Sherpa is pretty much doing all the work, anyway.

What cracks me up is how tough we Americans think we are "hiking Everest" when the Sherpas do it all the time as a paid gig lol.

 

[DietDrThunder]

I guess I don't have an adventurous spirit. Sure, I could die at any time due to an accident or whatever. But it just doesn't interest me enough to stake my life on the adventure. The most dangerous things I ever do is driving a classic car. But then again I always modify the vehicle with disc brakes, better seats, safety harness seat belts, modified steering columns, suspension upgrades, roll cage, etc.

 

[tynopik]

> Anyone wanna climb Mt. Everest

no

> with me?

hell no

 

[Kaido]

My dream is to one day climb Mt. Everest. Might do it with my shirt off, so I can show that six pack while I'm 30k feet at the peak. Anyone ready for an adventure?

When I first got into H&F, I got bit by the "too much energy" bug. I literally wanted to climb Everest, and I wanted to climb it just because it was there. I never really understood that drive before because I've always been a fairly low-energy person due to health issues. It's a somewhat dangerous trap to fall into because you feel pretty macho all the time & have so much internal motivation that it's easy to bypass rational thinking because you just have that drive inside of you. Kind of a similar feeling to when you have a huge crush on someone in high school & are willing to shift your schedule around to date them because you're so dang psyched up about dating them. I think that's partly why high-energy people excel at business & are often such jerks in the workplace...everyone else is running on a 4-cylinder engine, while you're on a supercharged 12-cylinder twin-turbo with NOS boost, why can't they keep up!?

Fortunately I have since come to my senses and now enjoy cookies & Netflix after work instead.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Find a fat, middle-aged dentist to go with you. They're the people that do it now.

 

[Thebobo]

Well I don't want to brag but I've climbed it, several times in fact.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I climbed a tall hill. You get a cookie.

Yeah, no. If I were to name something that I want to do as far as a bucket list before I die - learning to play a guitar and do a badass solo would trump stupid shit like climbing a hill.

 

[BD231]

Life sucks without huge frozen mountains, can't imagine its gettin any better up there I will decline.

Life's almost over mayne we're almost dead! How yah feelin !?!?!?

 

[lxskllr]

If I wanted a semi dangerous adventure, I'd go to Finland, head north, crossover into Russia, then head east and see what there is to see. All with just the stuff I can carry, and some euros and rubles in my pocket.

There was a time I was half serious about crossing the Atlantic in a kayak. Aside from motivational issues making it happen, I learned it had already been done by someone else. That makes it less special.

 

[MrSquished]

I saw the IMAX Everest movie in the 14 story or whatever size the big one is IMAX theater while tripping on acid years back. I feel like I've been there.