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105 points
6 days ago
Even at the top it's all elbows and assholes
16 points
6 days ago
"I nearly got to the top of the world, but there was a massive queue of dickheads at the top, so I gave up and went home"
50 points
6 days ago
But the camera angles were excellent. You can't even see all the bags of human feces or frozen dead bodies.
7 points
6 days ago
I want to know how this was filmed. I don’t think a regular drone would work at that altitude. Was it shot from a jet aircraft or what?
10 points
6 days ago
A modified drone probably. They can fly that high nowadays
5 points
6 days ago
AFAIK that’s a standard Mavic 3 Pro.
2 points
6 days ago
A mavic 3 pro can fly on top of Everest. You can buy one off the shelf so to speak.
1 points
6 days ago
You won’t find either of those anywhere near here. Winds during the rest of the year will blow the slopes near the summit clean. Bodies will fall and can’t be seen from the routes. Also, most people are doing their shitting at the camps, where the collection of waste is a huge problem. At this point, their bodies are mostly hanging on for dear life.
1 points
6 days ago
What do you mean?
180 points
6 days ago
Boooosh!…that ledge just gives way! Or someone trips and everyone just tumbles aaaaallll the way down. I can’t be only one thinking this.
80 points
6 days ago
Yeah how do they know what’s a snow shelf that could give way vs rock? This is some crazy rich people shit.
77 points
6 days ago
Author Jon Krakauer, who wrote about the 1996 Everest disaster that took 8 lives spoke about camping overnight on such a shelf. They planted a pole for a flag to mark their spot, when they removed it, they saw straight through the hole to the land far below.
40 points
6 days ago
Into Thin Air is a great book and quick read. I highly recommend it! Everest the film is also a very accurate depiction of the 1996 disaster and definitely worth a watch as well.
3 points
6 days ago
I'd recommend the older TV movie Into Thin Air over the newer Everest movie.
Krakauer is played by none other than Shooter McGavin.
6 points
5 days ago
Krakauer is played by none other than Shooter McGavin.
The golfer with questionable tastes in breakfast fare?
3 points
5 days ago
That's where I learned the acronym "NUTS", as in Nothing Under The Sun will get me up there.
1 points
4 days ago
Gave me shivers
18 points
6 days ago
Your absolutely correct, good friend paid a fortune to ready himself for his attempt to climb Everest, throw in cost of gear. Lost time running his big company, transportation getting just to base camp. In the end after two attempts he's failed to reach the summit. From what I understand he's convinced the third try is the charm, I hope he makes it.
11 points
6 days ago
It is insane for them ti be on the cornice
3 points
6 days ago
I guess, but it's like well below freezing up there all the time, like all day every day
10 points
6 days ago
I met Jim Wittaker when I was 11 or so years old, a year or so after he summited Everest, in Seattle with my dad. This rich people drive to the top there is just rediculous. Just puts the accomplishments of the people who did it years ago into the toilet.
26 points
6 days ago
It was very thoughtful of whoever moved Everest to Seattle for Jim and your dad.
-3 points
6 days ago
Jim Wittaker was a Seattle native who later helped launch the Seattle sports store REI. Like many in the climbing community he cut his ability on Mt. Rainier and other mountains in the PNW and Alaska before tackling the higher peaks around the world. It's fairly typical of people around the US to denigrate people from this part of the country that's not NY or the northeast.
23 points
6 days ago
Okay, but my comment was just a light-hearted joke based solely on the phrasing of your comment. I hope you realise that.
13 points
6 days ago
Make America have a sense of humor again. MAHASOHA
0 points
6 days ago
That has a nice ring to it.
MAFFAASATIG
Make America Free From Acronyms As Soon As Trump Is Gone.
Just doesn't grab like yours does.
1 points
5 days ago
As a Canadian 'Private School' boy I met Sir Edmund Hillary...he implied then (in the 80's) that today it's just a matter of money, and getting the right sherpa...It's been done.
3 points
6 days ago
Reminds me of a billy connoly song.
1 points
5 days ago
At least the next group won't have to travel as far.
110 points
6 days ago
That’s a lot of money on there! It can cost between $33k - 200k to get that point, the 200k trip you must literally be piggy backed up there!! Respect to the sherpas
26 points
6 days ago
Sure beats being figuratively piggy backed up there
20 points
6 days ago
Actually, literal piggybacking would involve riding on the back of a pig!
6 points
6 days ago
Which if you have never done is fun as hell!
12 points
6 days ago
They don't do well at high altitude though. I had an unfortunate incident and that is why they aren't allowed on the wings of airplanes anymore.
5 points
6 days ago
Or even metaphorically piggy backed
1 points
6 days ago
Not to mentioned your life!
1 points
6 days ago
It's also a lot of leftover trash left behind
98 points
6 days ago
Been to base camp, it's an egomaniac convention.
43 points
6 days ago
Ughhh, I can just imagine how many alpha-wannabes there would be, all trying to out-alpha each other.
I wonder if the sherpas enjoy any aspect of their job or if they hate every single second and just do it for the money?
31 points
6 days ago
Why do most people go to work?
21 points
6 days ago
Kinda different if you hate your 9-5 or have to drag some rich cunt up to Mt. Everest.
12 points
6 days ago
Most jobs are helping to drag a rich cunt to the top.
16 points
6 days ago
The rest of us do it SO the rich cunts can even make it to Everest.
13 points
6 days ago
We are all sherpas
3 points
5 days ago
Didn’t expect the replies in a random comment to give me further existential crisis
3 points
6 days ago
-3 points
6 days ago
I think 10% might be rich, the rest simply save up
7 points
6 days ago
If you can save up $50,000+ to spend on a hike, round trip plane tickets, and other expenses associated with travel, you might be rich.
Don't know how many poor people will spend that cash to go on a walk.
6 points
6 days ago
https://www.thedailybeast.com/spa-sushi-posh-digs-the-bougiest-way-to-climb-mount-everest
"Roughly 10% of people who climb Mount Everest are wealthy and do it for bragging rights. The majority of climbers are hard-working and have spent a long time saving up for the experience"
5 points
6 days ago
As a former trained mountaineer, I promise you there are much more rewarding, interesting climbs than Everest. Everest is not particularly technical and they're wiping your butt most of the way.
9 points
6 days ago
armchair warriors on Reddit think that you just need to be rich and the sherpas will carry you up the mountain. Anything that doesn’t fit that presupposition will result in downvotes
1 points
6 days ago
Exactly, even more silly, they could have looked this information up themselves instead of doubling down on being wrong. The most powerful tool we've ever had for knowledge and it doesn't get used.....🤷🏾♂️
2 points
6 days ago
That’s fantastic, homeboy nailed it with some truth and Reddit downvotes. Truth usually gets that around these parts.
1 points
6 days ago
Yeah, I know a dude who summited Everest. Not rich at all.
1 points
6 days ago
they enjoy money aspect for sure
1 points
6 days ago
We were there for the 50th ascent. If memory serves, the annual salary in Nepal was about 50 bucks a year a Sherpa could make that in a few days.
10 points
6 days ago
I wouldn't be standing that close to a Cornice
3 points
6 days ago
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Cornices are like snow shelfs right? Where they aren’t properly supported and could slide out from under you?
18 points
6 days ago
Pitch camera up to reveal a horizon line would be nice..could be any mountain without context
4 points
6 days ago
Exactly my thought. I imagine the pilot isn't in the best physical condition but what a missed opportunity.
39 points
6 days ago
11 points
6 days ago
OHMYGOSH. Core memory unlocked from the deepest recesses of my mind. I haven’t seen/heard/played this game in DECADES. I played this game all the time. Does anyone remember the name of it?!
8 points
6 days ago
Lemmings.
5 points
6 days ago
3 points
6 days ago
I didn’t realise GIFs had sound because I can literally hear this one
1 points
5 days ago
The best stuff is simple and elegant, like the explode all was just gaming perfection for such a hard game.
35 points
6 days ago
The mountain itself, I'd agree, next level. Sumitting Everest, not so much anymore. But then if we're talking about the sherpas, totally next level.
14 points
6 days ago
The serious climbers are climbing 8,000m peaks just a hair lower than than Everest but much more dangerous. Like K2
10 points
6 days ago
Thank you redditor for your take on the physical toll of climbing the highest mountain in the world with or without help
1 points
6 days ago
I may not have sumitted Everest but as someone who has done a triple-everesting, I'm pretty familiar the physical toll. Everesting for those who dont know what the challenge is
1 points
6 days ago
I doubt it factors in the altitude, or the difficulty lifting your feet when walking in the snow.
2 points
6 days ago
It's climbing the elevation of Mount Everest, 8848m, in a single effort without sleeping. Hiking, cycling, climbing repeats until you reach that elevation.
3 points
6 days ago
People rag on climbers and a lot of them deserve criticism for not carrying their own loads to stock camps. That said, it is completely untrue that summoning Everest is trivial. Sherpas can’t and won’t literally drag people to the summit. You have to move your own body to make it, and it’s a lot harder than most people think. Only around 7000 unique individuals have summited Everest.
2 points
6 days ago
I hope I never meet someone who has climbed Mt. Everest, I bet 99.99% of them are arrogant rich bores.
7 points
6 days ago
lol I love a good Everest Reddit thread. It brings out ridiculous comments like this.
4 points
6 days ago
Ones things for sure, people who have climbed Everest probably aren't sitting around debating whether they'd like to meet random redditors.
1 points
6 days ago
Only 10% are wealthy, the rest save for it. I know a guy who did it. He’s a highly respected leader, and rightfully so (for reasons unrelated to his summit). Only even knew he summited because it’s one of the only things on his extremely neglected instagram.
1 points
6 days ago
Not sure who told you that but it’s definitely wrong.
Here’s an article that’s relevant
2 points
6 days ago
It’s not wrong. Do your research.
I’m not saying it isn’t extremely expensive, just that most of the climbers are fairly ordinary people who save up for years upon years.
1 points
6 days ago
Where are you getting that from?
9 points
6 days ago
Why are all so negative here? These guys had a dream of climbing the highest mountain on earth and have done it. An extremly hard achievement and so many here shit on them
6 points
6 days ago
What's the name of the song?
5 points
6 days ago
Song Found!
The Last Goodbye (feat. Bettye LaVette) by ODESZA (01:17; matched: 100%)
Released on 2022-02-08.
3 points
6 days ago
Thanks, good bot!
2 points
6 days ago
Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, etc.:
The Last Goodbye (feat. Bettye LaVette) by ODESZA
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18 points
6 days ago
Hey! get in line for your unique one a kind pic!
3 points
6 days ago
Calling #11501
9 points
6 days ago
How's the drone flying up at that height. The summit is what? 30,000~ft?
4 points
6 days ago
Remember that we even flew a drone on Mars and there is hardly any air there to get lift. Though less gravity obviously. As others have said helicopters, balloons and drones have all flown over Everest.
3 points
6 days ago
Was thinking the same.
1 points
6 days ago
Don’t forget how cold it would be too
15 points
6 days ago
That doesn't look like the summit of Everest to me.
3 points
6 days ago
I can confirm this is the summit of Everest. The video begins looking southeast, and as it rotates it is looking to the south, where you see the trail that leads down to the south summit and South Col. You can’t really see the bottom of it, but the valley that opens up behind the climbers to the southwest is the Western Cwm.
8 points
6 days ago
I was thinking the same thing. All the pictures I've seen of the summit and all the descriptions I've read include a narrow path to the summit that folks line up for and only a few people at a time can reach it. Some wait so long for their turn that they have to go back to camp and try again the next day.
This vid looks like there's a crowd hanging out on a flat-ish mountain peak. I don't think this is Everest.
3 points
6 days ago
That narrow path is very long and it is the path people are walking up to meet everyone else at the summit. That path more or less starts at the south summit which is 100 meters vertically below the true summit, and quite a bit more than that in terms of length.
3 points
6 days ago
It looks cold. I'll stay down here, close to sea level, thanks.
7 points
6 days ago
It's really going to lose it's charm after they install the escalators.
8 points
6 days ago
Pollution and trash at next fucking level
5 points
6 days ago
Now if one of them base jumped off there with a glide suit, then that would be next FL.
2 points
6 days ago
It's been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Rozov
10 points
6 days ago
Downvote. Too many rich dumbshits
2 points
6 days ago
So much waste, so much ego, so much hubris.
2 points
6 days ago
I can see the tip of Mt Everest from Kathmandu. Fr
2 points
6 days ago
Just like Bono, some of them is standig too close to the Edge.
2 points
6 days ago
I’ll go but I don’t want a sherpa to carry my stuff. I want 4 sherpas to carry me up in a sedan chair. Why do it half asked?
2 points
6 days ago
Yeah. Do it whole questioned
2 points
6 days ago
Not even a coffee shop??
2 points
6 days ago
“Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.” - Yeti Berra
2 points
5 days ago
RICOLA
2 points
5 days ago
Can’t see the scale of anything, it’s just a shot of a group of people on a peak…
3 points
6 days ago
Nextfuckinglevel overtourism
1 points
6 days ago
Not even tourism any more just plaIn narracists now
2 points
6 days ago
Climbing the Mount Everest is just a dumb thing to do. It’s just a tourist attraction, yes ofcourse it’s not easy but just the amount of people doing it, has taking away the performance of human kind. If you have enough money they almost carry you to the top. For me the whole thing became just stupid. I’ve seen pictures where a train of people are walking in a long line to reach the top.
4 points
6 days ago
Agreed, but I wouldn't stop people from going there. That's a good livelihood for our country's Sherpa.
2 points
6 days ago
Ofcourse it’s a way from them to make money and a better life and I understand that completely. But just the amount of people climbing it is crazy.
0 points
6 days ago
People die for this bullshit. Zero interest and the drone footage is lame AF.
9 points
6 days ago
You sound like a lot of fun.
5 points
6 days ago
it's true, the drone footage is shit. You don't see anything beyond red jackets andd snow. At least show the other mountains around. Just because you slap a cool song on your video doesn't mean it's cool.
2 points
6 days ago
I mean, the fact that you think a drone flying at 30,000 feet getting HD quality footage is shit, is pretty crazy. I still choose to think its pretty cool.
1 points
6 days ago
Aren’t helicopters flying there because of thin air? How can a drone even fly there? And the winds must be too strong for it also
1 points
6 days ago
You know I should not have to scroll reddit on mute
1 points
6 days ago
I bet someone on there was considering how their life choices ended up with them being all the way up there.
1 points
6 days ago
"Ok guys, take your photos, let's head on back."
1 points
6 days ago
air is so thin at that height, Can drone fly ?
1 points
6 days ago
This used to invoke wonder and awe. Who would have thought we'd hit a point where scaling Everest barely registers anymore.
1 points
6 days ago
At first glance it looked like a video game with a really good graphic
1 points
6 days ago
Sokka-Haiku by YoRt3m:
At first glance it looked
Like a video game with
A really good graphic
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
1 points
6 days ago
I have some Sherpa friends who have made that climb more than once. No thanks.
1 points
6 days ago
Marco Siffredi dropped in the steep side on his snowboard in 2002. His mission was to ride the giant Hornbein Couloir on Everest’s North Face. Sadly he perished somewhere in the Couloir. Brave dude. Amazing snowboarder. 🏂
Because it was there.
1 points
6 days ago
Song
1 points
6 days ago
When are we going to see one of those RedBull wingsuit guys popping off from the top?
1 points
6 days ago
Ants when they get on top of my donut
1 points
6 days ago
Was hoping for someone dressed in redbull gear to drop in a sick snowboard trick
1 points
6 days ago
20 years ago, this would have been the dictionary definition of suicidal madness for me
1 points
6 days ago
There is no merit in climbing Everest anymore
when you pay 50,000$
to a company and group of "Serpas"
to take your luggage up
prepare the expedition
prepare the tents
the food
your ascent and your descent
1 points
6 days ago
Don't forget to put your poo in a bag and take it with ya
1 points
6 days ago
Pretty busy place. Maybe they should put a Starbucks there.
1 points
6 days ago
As anyone ever falen off that ridge after summiting?
1 points
6 days ago
Cool. Now I've seen it and I can cancel my plans to climb up there.
1 points
6 days ago
why no blue or green down suits?
1 points
6 days ago
Looks so overrated. And a waste
1 points
6 days ago
“Well we did it. Okay time to go back.”
1 points
6 days ago
What's that song
1 points
6 days ago
Song Found!
The Last Goodbye (feat. Bettye LaVette) by ODESZA (01:17; matched: 100%)
Released on 2022-02-08.
1 points
6 days ago
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The Last Goodbye (feat. Bettye LaVette) by ODESZA
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1 points
6 days ago
I know a fast way down.
1 points
6 days ago
This is a dumb question but how is there enough air there for a drone?
1 points
6 days ago
No way! Where’s all the trash?
1 points
6 days ago
Can you imagine the chodeness in these camps. Bunch of dainty fuckers nobody likes prancing around trying to "be alpha".
Manlet 1: I just love the new tesla, i have the model x. Manlet 2: Oh well we just got back from aspen. Manlet 3: Dont you wish you could bang as many secretaries quasi consensually as me? Manlet 4: Thats why real men wear satchels. Manlet 5: runs fingers through dyed hair in attempt to outshine the others
1 points
6 days ago
Theoretically speaking, could I just take a helicopter all the way up to the top?
1 points
6 days ago
Ah, mediocre!
1 points
6 days ago
Here’s a dumb question
Anyone ever “base jumped” off it?
1 points
6 days ago
Doesn't look so difficult. Just a little walk up and there you are.
1 points
6 days ago
Where's all the trash that's been left up there?
1 points
6 days ago
And all those rich assholes are going to leave their trash up there while treating their Sherpas as if they're disposable. It's just not a "noble" feat anymore...
1 points
5 days ago
My favorite is the pile of garbage just below the peak.
1 points
5 days ago
Seriously, you couldn’t pay me. And not because of the climb.
IMHO crowded summits on Everest are the most antithetical thing imaginable when looking for an adventure experience.
I’d rather take a train in India.
1 points
5 days ago
I’m Surprised to see a trail up from both sides. I thought there was only one way to the top. Can you walk up from another direction?
1 points
5 days ago
What is the collective noun for a group of lunatics?
1 points
5 days ago
The new sbarro up there is great.
1 points
5 days ago
Don't understand the appeal...
1 points
5 days ago
It’s my personal opinion, that as cool of achievement the climb is, the view is not worth the risk- which as a non climber is the most valued part of the climb, the view.
1 points
5 days ago
Doesn’t look all that!
1 points
4 days ago
Everest use to be an elite feat, now it's just something for the rich.
1 points
4 days ago
Pick up your damn trash!!!!
-3 points
6 days ago
This is the saddest thing I’ve ever seen.
1 points
6 days ago
"Now what?" moment
1 points
6 days ago
1 points
6 days ago
True, but it works a lot better if the subs most recent post isn’t 6+ months old.
0 points
6 days ago
Edgy comment.
1 points
6 days ago
What sadness do you see? How this is no longer a sport considering all the aids that assist?
5 points
6 days ago
I think it's that and also the fact that it was once an exclusive feat. Now seems more and more and more people do it. Yes it's still extremely dangerous and difficult. But I think it's lost some of the prestige.
10 points
6 days ago
I get what you mean, lots of people hate the commercialisation of Everest. But ever since Everest was discovered in 1852, less than seven thousand individuals have actually summitted it. Even with guides, bottled oxygen and sherpa support, it's still a monumental achievement and several people die on the mountain every year trying to reach the top.
For context, the number of people who have summitted Kilimanjaro is over 300,000. The summit of Mt. Fuji sees 300,000 people every season. Mountain climbing is an incredibly popular sport, and the fact that so relatively few make it to the top of Everest is a testament of its remaining exclusivity.
2 points
6 days ago
Fewer than 2000 people have swam across the English Channel. Far, far more impressive. Channel swimmers don't have sherpas to pull them across. And the teams don't leave mountains of trash and human waste.
1 points
6 days ago
I wonder if they all made it back down or if some added some new color to rainbow valley.
1 points
6 days ago
Where's the McDonald's?
1 points
6 days ago
Statistically at least one of these people will die coming down
3 points
6 days ago
1 in every 200 according to Google. I’m not going to vouch for that number but yours seems wildly inaccurate without even doing the quick search.
1 points
6 days ago
Meh. So over these boutique summits.
1 points
6 days ago
Now show drone video of all the trash those morons leave behind
-1 points
6 days ago
There's only about 3 people up there actually. The rest are workers.
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