Overcrowding on Mount Everest claims three more lives - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/three-more-deaths-on-overcrowded-mount-everest?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=STFB&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1558689505 https://www.straitstimes.com/sites/default/files/styles/x_large/public/articles/2019/05/24/yq-everest-24052019.jpg?itok=tFaRqxP1&timestamp=1558681885 That's right, there is a queue now just to get to the summit #wanderlust

What the fuck. That might be one of the most hilariously stupid things i've seen.

The thought of having to stand in line while on a limited oxygen supply really sets off my anxiety

Come on guys, the idea is to make the event of climbing Everest special and impressive, if too many people climb it then the inverse action of NOT climbing it will become special instead. And then everyone would celebrate on how skillfully they DID NOT climb Everest.

Did they build stairs all the way up or what.

Jet propelled elevator.

Hey, it takes a lot of skill to not die on Mount Everest, you never know when you might end up on it by mistake.

Seeing a line for Mount Everest is surreal

I hate it when that happens, I peacefully go to sleep at my usual time and then suddenly wake up at three am near the peak hanging from a vertical wall.

Actually this is the exact reason I have not brought gold membership here on facepunch yet :v

Imagine those who climbed Everest for the first time, shitty clothes, shitty climbing gear, don't know where to climb, barely know the weeks' weather, no oxygen tanks. And then we got these rich people that pays approx $100,000+ to get help getting to the top. If you're going to climb a mountain at that level, stop with the Everest ego boosting and go for K2. But if your goal is to set foot on the tallest mountain I can understand (even though K2 is almost the same height), but Everest is not the most dangerous anymore and personally I think that ruins the purpose of such challenges. Overcrowding has always been a gigantic problem, especially near the middle because it affects the the time later on, and time is of the essence because after around 7,000m the air is like 50% thinner and your body can't survive that after a certain time. Just imagine a storm and nobody can move on those overcrowded lines, it's just a ticking bomb to kill dozens of people, which has happened many times before. The worst is for those near the top and at the top that needs to go down as fast as possible because of air and in case of bad weather, but the crowding fucks up that as well. Stupidity. It is possible to fix this issue, but unfortunately not everyone wants to because of the commercial businesses and everyone has their own solution; so they just keep on going. It's too sad that Sherpas go unnoticed for doing the hard work. K2 still hasn't been summited at winter. We have conquered Everest, lets move on to the next: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58145/0d6ee265-92dd-4fcc-a9b8-755b721419b9/53466456.jpg

do you actually believe this, is this sarcasm i cant tell and it genuinely bothers me

Pretty sure it is sarcasm. As is my post btw

No I do not actually believe that whatsoever it was just a sequential joke.

thank god

I thought that was a dramatic photoshop, cant belive that is actually real

Hey man, did I ever tell you about that time I didn't climb Everest? Man it was sick not climbing the tallest mountain in the world.

The Chinese are quite literally building a road almost straight up to Everest from their side of the mountain range as a result of how expeditions continue to grow in size. The amount of people trying to get to Lukla from Kathmandu is unbelievable. None of the villages in that area are equipped to handle it.

That is sick dude! I once managed to not climb Everest so hard that I ended up in Challenger Deep! Unfortunately as I looked out of the sub window I realized that I destroyed my own joke by substituting not climbing Everest with something equally as impressive.

People are fucking dumb, taking turns to reach the summit but come on, move on dick head, 100 other people want their victory too, except it isn't and it's cheapened massively. If you're legit climbing up there and get mixed in with this lot, I feel bad for you, even moreso if you fall off because of some rich arsehole.

How long before they start opening chain restaurants and gift shops at base camp

wow those people on in that queue are truly enlightened

https://i.imgur.com/4jLzkPp.jpg

How about we just declare that humanity has officially conquered the mountain and close it?

because rich people wanna spend 25-100k to have Sherpas drag them to the top of a mountain so they can have an epic picture for facebook for the sole reason of saying "I did this" And then they die and their bodies are nicknamed shit like Green Boots or Red Jacket and they're forever just another landmark on the vanity trip to the top of the world

I couldn't sleep one night and ended up reading up on all the deaths on Everest. Didn't help me sleep at all but all the details of the climb, the necessary prep, and all the ways the whole thing can go tits up, is honestly fascinating.

I mean Mt. Everest has obviously been commercialised to the point where you don't need much climbing experience, but let's not just throw out the baby with the bath water - case in point, "Green Boots" is believed to be an Indian police man who literally grew up at the foot the Himalayas. And "Red Jacket" doesn't, to my knowledge, exist. Sure, some people may do it for vanity, and obviously you need to have some kind of wealth to afford it, but I think for most people it's a case of priorities - it's not necessarily throwaway money to them. Personally I can understand the allure in trying to accomplish such a extreme feat.

What an unimpressive way to die.

You're entirely right, I chose Green Boots because it's the only one I can name off the top of my head, and Red Jacket was just a made up example of how deaths on the mountain can be categorized not by who you were in life, but by what you're wearing when you collapsed. I also don't mean to insinuate that everyone who has ever tackled this feat is doing it out of vanity, but I do think there's an undeniable popularity surrounding the myth of Everest that draws people of all ilk, prepared or otherwise, to give it a shot. When I think of Everest I'm not picturing the seasoned climbers who have given it their all to conquer the Name of Names in mountaineering, I'm picturing the person who trained by walking up hills in northern Canada with a heavy backpack and was promised that she'd learn "everything she needs to know" on the mountain itself. (She, unfortunately but unsurprisingly, died on the descent.) Plenty of people are able to make the journey without becoming a permanent fixture of the mountain so maybe I'm picturing a small small portion of its visitors. It's just hard to see all these deaths year after year alongside photos of a literal queue to the peak without getting jaded about the entire operation. I wonder how many people have climbed that mountain who wanted to climb it just because it's the Famous one that's Really Really Difficult, only to be carried down by the guides they paid to get them there.

Fair point.