How anyone can claim that climbing Everest is somehow unimpressive due to “commercialism” is beyond me.
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Costs $80K, 6.5% death rate, sherpas risk their lives to carry up tourists and their oxygen bottles which get discarded on the mountain like litter
No thanks!
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My whole point was this was interesting when it was first done but now it’s just a late capitalist signalling shame. And a big freaking sad waste.
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It is a physical feat, it used to be on the border of what was possible. Whole experience is optimized to make people go up whatever consequences, wrong incentive IMO.
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