What things people aspire to do baffles you?

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Currently watching Everest and I had to Google it because I heard it now costs a lot of money to do it. It does. It’s between $32,000 and $60,000 to climb the mountain in the hopes you make it to the summit and don’t die. To me that’s crazy. That’s a lot of money to risk your life and at the end of the day, all you can say is….i climbed Mount Everest…

and basically the sherpas do
all the hard work. Everest tourism sucks.

Any mountain climbing or polar exploration - usually arduous, bleak, life threatening and gives very little back to humanity so it’s entirely selfish and reckless.

It does. The amount of rubbish left up there as well as the bodies of the dead who cannot be safely recovered. Plus apparently now, I’ve read there are a lot of queues!!

that actually does appeal to me!

what doesnt? fancy car

appeals to me insofar as the physical endurance challenge

Yeah I don’t get the appeal of a brand new fancy car that depreciates value as soon as it leaves the courtyard.

The Spencer Matthews doc on Everest was very good. His brother's body is still up there. It was on Disney +

I would visit Nepal but I wouldnt go up Everest

The book Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer is also very good.

The Submersible implosion last year... I can understand scientists desire, but not tourists!

Yes, me too. I’d also love to go to Antarctica. I don’t want to summit Everest, but wouldn’t mind exploring Nepal and around base camp, etc.

What doesn’t - fancy car and massive houses.

Yes! I found the idea of that in terms of the danger and confined space with that submersible terrifying

See on one hand I would love to see titanic in real life. It would be a moving experience. But the idea of going down in a sub with all the tight spaces especially after what happened last time, guarantees I will never do it. I’m not even claustrophobic!!

See I agree about fancy cars. All I care is about is having a reliable, comfortable car that gets me from a to b. I don't care if it's flashy or not. As for houses, I really disagree. I absolutely would love a bigger flashier house but that's for me to enjoy rather than impressing other people.

scube diving

no no and no

This 💯

Tell you what mine is. I love watching Rollercoasters but I am scared of them. I can't imagine wanting to go upside down. I wish i had the guts!

The sub things while it doesn't appeal to me I kind of get why it wouldappeal to some. Somewhere person alive was not yet. If people didn't have these ambitions of exploring unknown and danger we would not be where we are now.

Definitely agree with no aspiration at all to climb Everest!
Also these mega rich people who are desperate to go to space either via space tourism or their own vanity project rockets (Branson and Bezos). This aspiration just puzzles me. The environmental impact is enough to put me off. Same with flying in private jets, I have no desire to fly in one. I don’t know how people square that with the environmental damage it does. I have made the decision to fly max once per year by choice and in the past 7 years have only flown twice.

If I was billionaire, I would be focusing on THIS planet not jetting off to space. I would want to have trees planted and helping poorer countries with food etc.

Bungee jumping/parachuting out of a plane. Anything like that where you are putting your life completely into a tiny bit of equipment. I totally get that people want an adrenaline rush but you can get adrenaline from sports and safer stuff, it's on so many people's bucket lists and I just feel utter terror at the thought for myself!

Same as pp, bigger house (surely just involves bigger bills and more work) or expensive cars. My car is newish to me but not hugely expensive, it has some nicer features than my decades old Micra but the ones like Tesla's that self drive etc - not for me!

A colleague is preparing to row the Atlantic for his 'mental health'. Fundraising 200k to do it, not for charity, for the kit / boat / whatever else they need.

Another vote for scuba diving - just no
Everest - nope, although I do get the appeal of pushing yourself to the absolute limit, but Everest just seems such a waste
Submersible nope not in your life
Space, not interested in that either
Bungee jumping
Parachuting
(I'm such a wuss)

Tbh it's great we have people who want to do these things, we'd be less if we didn't have the likes of Christopher Columbus, people going on scientific research exploring the work. I just don't want to be the one doing it

I am baffled by people who will go into tens - possibly thousands - of pounds of debt to drive a fancy car.

I earn quite a lot of money (not quite the 'fabled MN six figures', but a squeak off it) and I drive a 14-year-old Mazda that cost me £4.5k four years ago.

It's comfortable, reliable and good on fuel, therefore it ticks all the 'car requirements' boxes for me.

I'm vaguely considering buying a 2nd-hand Dascia Duster next year, but £12k is my limit.

I actually totally get the appeal of the adrenaline stuff.

For me...I think it would be people trying so hard to be approvable and validated by fitting into the box of normal.

Some people make choices - not because they want to - but so someone else can tell them 'yep, well done, you're normal'. I hope that makes sense?

None of this interests me in the least.

Especially trips into orbit and all that stuff. What a load of needless expense.

and how far has he got with that aspiration ?!