AIBU to think booing the exhausted charity climbers was unfair?

Ugh! Queues at a trig point! Presumably this is hordes of people for whom the actual walk up a mountain is less important than the Instagram moment at the top.

It's a queue for a photo-op and it is a kind of pollution of the summit.

Presumably the charity people had to touch the trig point just as a formal completion of the task for which they were receiving donations. There is zero reason why they should play along with a novel set of expectations generated by our increasing obsession with photos for social media.
Trig points have various roles. Why should their new Instagram role set conventions that dominate people who use them for other purposes?

Is this one of those mountains that can be approached by some pretty easy-peasy routes as well as the much harder ones? It is horrible when you complete a very challenging and isolated walk and find a crowded summit.

Did they cause anyone else queuing to have to wait longer? Were people annoyed because they got in someone's photo background and therefore slowed down the selfie line? Because if so that's pretty fucking stupid and I'm with the tappers. But if they physically got in between someone else and the trig (whatever that is) and actually delayed the queuers then I agree they were wrong. I'm inclined to think they weren't unreasonable though.

The queue only exists because of people taking selfies. I think next time they should remember to pack a hi vis each and shout ‘mountain rescue coming through’ as they go past the queue.

It's a mountain. The concept of a queue is inherently ridiculous and created by the social media obsession with a perfect shot.

IMHO no-one should be queuing. Take a (quick!) photo and accept that it'll have other people in it, you're not that special.

To me the inherent question is "Should people's desire for social media content be allowed to inconvenience others?"
To which, to me, the answer is clearly No.

So while I think they're ridiculous for getting upset about being booed (cos it's completely foreseeable that others who have decided to queue will be annoyed), I don't think they're unreasonable for bypassing a self-inflicted queue.

He was putting it on social media just like everyone else, so they should have just waited their turn.

The arrogance of those two men is outrageous.
How dare they try and shame people for booing them over the queue jumping, just because they were fundraising. The way they spoke about other people who complained about poor behaviour and excusing it by claiming that their charity t-shirts should have prevented it.
Honestly I thought that they were twats before I read their comments but now having read them and there oh aren't we so special and everybody should move aside for us crap I really hope that they get a social media pasting

The queueing thing is stupid as fuck. It also sounds(but I might be mistaken) that they took a different route to avoid the queueing and they didn’t want the whole photo op at the top .

Booing them was ridiculous, but so was going to the papers to cry about it.

Ah! I was just about to say all of this but you said it better.
Loathe the whole charity/activity thing.
Just go do what you clearly want to do anyway- don't emotionally blackmail people for money- people who are busy doing life while you're doing your important activity.
And give your own sodding money to the charity!
I remember my sister-in-law raising money for airfare to go to China to walk the Great Wall ....for charity!

Often but there's only really one route up and down Everest, and climbers need to clip onto fixed ropes and climb ladders etc. so they have no choice. There are loads of routes up and down Snowdon and when you get to the top, you can pretty much approach from 360 degrees. Queuing with people who want photos makes no sense.

I’m a bit torn because tbh it would annoy me to have to stand in a long queue just to tap something because others are fannying about taking selfies.

On the other hand, if the queue is the queue these two weren’t special just because they’d done two other mountains first. There could have been others waiting who also just wanted to tap it.

I think that’s the lack of clarity - is the queue just for selfies and should “tappers” be allowed to skip past, or is it a queue for all?

I’m going up in the summer and tbh I think I’d not bother to tap it if there’s a stinking great queue - I don’t really do queues! (As in, I don’t bother with things if theirs is one, not that I skip them as that’s rude and entitled).

Climbers sometimes queue for the Everest summit.

Yes exactly.

The queue is surely only relevant if you want to take a photo of yourself at the trig point. If all you want to do is touch the trig point then walk away then I really don't see that it warrants a queue.

But if it’s not a big deal why are people wanting a photo there anyway? Just go, reach the top and then come back down.

Their comments irritated me, but queuing up a mountain would also irritate me. If the people were queuing for photos and they didn't want photos then walking past seems legit. And if it was just a queue to touch it then it should have been moving at walking pace and no exhausted climbers would have been overtaking anyone.

I think the way he phrased it was unreasonable, but I also think it’s bonkers to have to queue to touch a stone.

Queue for photo op: yes
Queue for touch and go: no

Getting people to give money for you to do an activity you want to do anyway then acting like you’re somehow special and more important than the people in the queue is antisocial and finishing a made up challenge in an arbitrary time limit is not an excuse.

Funny how these activities are never “collect 50 sacks of roadside litter in 24 hours” or “drive the day centre minibus every Saturday for a year” - it’s always some fun activity like skydiving or hiking they’d want to do anyway.

The adulation given to people for these physical feats is ridiculous. Running a marathon doesn't make you special. They should have waited in line like everyone else.

AFAIK the queue was for people who wanted a photo of themselves posing at the trig point, whereas these 2 charity hikers just wanted to touch it to complete their challenge. Why should they be expected to queue for something they don't want?

It was a great achievement but I think it was arrogant of them to think that they had the right to queue jump.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/creplqjdxqxo

What the big deal about touching the trig point? They've already climbed to the summit. Just move on if the queue is long.

Queuing for the top of a mountain seems like peak Britishness! Is it because people are fannying about taking Insta photos?

The queue on a mountain is stupid. Shouldn't have to wait for half an hour or whatever while people take selfies to quickly touch the trig point and get on with your walk. I did the same last time I was there.

I also don't adjust my behaviour for people taking photos in a busy city centre.

I too hate threads like this with no link.

I've Googled and to be honest, they sound a bit up their own arses and selfish in what they've said here...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/creplqjdxqxo

Me too, I was wondering what was going on.

I hate these no context posts where you have to go Google to get the actual story. FFS just put a link in or something.