AIBU to be blown away by this? TW - Deaths on Everest.

People will just print them up off the internet like fake law degrees etc. There seems to be a sizeable number of people in society now just gagging to kill themselves doing dangerous things, if it isn"t sharks it is alligators or snakes or dangerous mountains or extreme sports or extreme selfies on high places etc. They will find a way to be total boneheads one way or the other.

Who was the famous climber who said on one of his difficult climbs that ended up being very touch and go an invisible being climbed beside him for the last four hours or so, he could feel them there beside him?

Yes I thought so.

Yes, I believe they started making climbing goggles in Nepal around 1910?

It was named after the double glazing company wasnt it?

There's currently a draft law in Nepal, if it goes through then in future, anyone applying for an Everest summit permit will need proof of having summited another Nepalese 7000 footer.

The final stages of hypothermia confuses your brain and you can feel hot and start to take your clothes off because of it. I believe that’s what they believe happened to the scuba diving couple who were forgotten in Australia and also the Austrian lady who was left on the mountain by her boyfriend

Yes exactly this

Hypoxia is probably a big part of this. Brain and body starved of oxygen leading to poor judgment and irrational decisions. I can imagine it’s pretty much like tripping, hallucinating.

What I was thinking about was, are people thinking its easy and not putting enough prep in and being fit enough. I know they get help from the Sherpas but despite that.

A few years back I was visiting a friend in the US and met another friend of hers.
My friend mentioned afterwards that this woman had smoked down Everest.
i thought my friend was confused but i googled her afterwards and her friend actually had skied down Everest.

It always struck me as an astonishing thing to do. I imagine it is quite different to have a Sherpa help you.

Still not a sensible or advisable undertaking.

JK touches on that in ITA, "summit fever", experienced climbers always know when to call it off, inexperienced try to dash for the summit, but it is much much further and harder than it looks, he says on one attempt he turned back and cautioned another climber wearing a bright red ( I think) climbing jacket to do the same, the guy ignored the warning and headed off towards the summit into the approaching weather, couple of years later JK was trying it again and saw the guy"s body sitting there near the summit, frozen stiff.

Interesting contrasting story - Everest - Man Vs Mountain follows Dave Bunting and his team on their attempt to summit in the early 2000s.

Balls of steel required from him as the team leader in cutting short their summit attempt, but absolutely the right decision for the team. There should be more expedition leaders like him.

a part of their brain is missing

Unless they are genetically linking up to each other with a special backpack or something the effort will be the same? Would probably make things more dangerous though, more people in your way, more impatience, more risk of accidents?

Some people don't listen to true crime podcasts and it shows 😂 I'm so desensitised nothing triggers me anymore

6 months is past the point of viability to this was technically manslaughter. That baby could've survived outside of her body if she only didn't risk both their lives to boost own ego. Just shocking

I've read that! Dated but quite funny, I thought.

My thoughts exactly. Pure vanity.

’I climbed Everest’. Except you didnt. You needed guided help, people to carry you/things, oxygen etc.

That would be like saying I completed a marathon. Except someone carried me the last 10 miles.

@CliantheLang- that was an interesting video but I can’t find parts 2 and 3. Were they ever posted on YouTube?

Freezer burn.

Didn't Green Boots die in the same event? Second this though, it's a great book. They made a film about it too with Keira Knightley.

I recommend ‘Into Thin Air’ by Jon Krakauer about a famous failed commercial expedition in the 1990s that went disastrously wrong when the weather changed after they reached the summit. I learned for the first time about all the bodies up there. What possesses people to do these climbs and put all those sherpas’ lives in peril? Completely shocking.

I find these Everest summiters similar to the idiots in the Titan submersible (the 19 year old pressured to go by his dad excepted). Total self centred over rich twats who would be better finding a sense of real purpose than doing something so risky, that doesn’t matter, and no one really cares about. Again other people risked their own safety trying to help them when their stupid endeavour predictably went tits up.

More people have been to the moon than the deepest ocean trench. (Because it's easier).