.@wendoverpro just published this interesting video on the logistics of climbing the Everest/Chomolungma. I knew it had become a mass commercial operation, but the scale of thing astounds me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU2kANHyF1w …
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Which reminds me: one of my evil plans for when I'm dictator of Earth is to have an 80-storey five-star luxury hotel (with rooftop vista, swimming pool and fancy restaurant) built on top of the K2 so as to make it the tallest mountain on Earth and annoy the Everest climbers. …
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…If you think building an 80-storey building atop the K2 is hard, it probably is, but I'm sure it's peanuts compared to making a lunar base or sending humans on Mars. “We choose to build the hotel and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard!”
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Replying to @gro_tsen
So, after the hotel on K2, a hotel in L2 ?
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