More than 350 trekkers escape blizzard-hit Everest, hundreds still stranded

I don’t give a fuck. Gooooooooooooood. It’s mainly overly wealthy people doing this. They shit and leave crap all over the mountain. Literal shit everywhere.

yea its like 50-200k per person i believe. Some idiots even tried K2 mountain, which is more deadly.
It is 100% overly wealthy, selfish people and the service workers they’ve trapped with them.
Spending thousands on gear, then going all the way to Nepal (a less developed country) to climb a mountain is the very definition of “overly wealthy.”
Nothing says “I don’t care about anyone else” like insisting on being the millionth tough guy to climb a mountain, just to say they did.
I think this should be part of the risk. Leave them up there and clean the bodies up when it thaws.
- also taking advantage, albiet paying them, sherpas to CARRY all your junk.
- Come on with those absolutes… first hit on google for a commercial top of the line expedition ranges between 100k for the crazy short-track « climb the whole thing » to a relatively affordable 3k to go to the base camp…. Which is less than a whole lot of families apparently spend on vacation. Additionally those are very important source of revenues for Nepalis…
Get in line.
Money alone won't get you up there. No matter how many Sherpa's you hire, it's brutal. People spends weeks and weeks at the various base camps just to acclimate, and that does nothing to add to their strength.
And yes they leave literal shit and O2 bottles. Carrying a few extra pounds on the way down could kill you. You have to give it nearly all you got to summit, then the descent is even more dangerous.
We could argue shutting down the mountain, but I've never heard of a solution to remove the trash. You have to carry it up, you can't carry it down.
Read Into Thin Air if you want to know more. I won't read it again, too brutal.

It's fucking stupid that there were that many people on that mountain in the first place. Climbing it is like a millionaires bucket list item, so many of those assholes do it.

I know it brings in a lot of money, so this will never happen, but I'd like to see the mountain completely closed. Pay the Sherpas to bring down all the dead bodies, then give them a pension. Some billionaire will no doubt try to buy their way in, but don't let them. Keep some things sacred above money, tell them to fuck off.

To me, it's not necessarily people climbing it that's the issue. It's that some people have so little respect for everyone and everything that they're perfectly content to use the world as their own personal trash can.
I shit you not, I recently chewed some lady out on the hiking trail 2 miles from my house because she chucked the plastic bowl and spoon from her lunch off into the woods, in front of God and everybody like it's just no big deal. Well it's a big fucking deal to me.
And if a person can't manage to go on a hike or scale a mountain without leaving their garbage behind like a slob, then they should stay home.
- Leaving several pounds of trash can easily be the difference in making it down alive. Read *Into Thin Air". If the way up doesn't kill you, getting back down is far more dangerous.
No way. I want to see this and extreme deep sea exploration become a billionaire's bucket list item. Send them all.
- I heard about this really amazing adventure we could send them on.
- I gotta admit, I'm never upset when I hear about tourists dying on everest.
  Rich people deserve every bad thing that happens to them until they give up their wealth or it's taken by force.
- 100% but they can't get ANY tax break or subsidy for that. They also can't get PR out of it.
and its not even special anymore, because your with 1000 other douches try to chase clout, or brag about. if one was CLIMBER and not someone trekking there, than that is different.
To be honest. If I died on the top of the highest peak in the world. I'd want my body to stay there. Like, unless it's in the way and creeping people out. Leave me.
- I'd strike a pose or something. I think it would be cooler if it was in the way and creeping people out tbh. I'd probably climb the mountain with a few props just in case.
All the money in the world won't get you to the summit. And if you make it that far, you're not even halfway out of danger. The way down is so fucking brutal, people can't carry the extra weight of trash.
Money just gives you a ticket to ride, won't get you to the summit.
And if you think Sherpas are capable of carry frozen corpses down, that tells me you're ignorant on this subject. Read Into Thin Air if you want to know more. It's one of the most surprising non-fiction books I've read.

I read another headline earlier, something like "Blizzard strands 1000 people on Mt Everest."

And my early morning brain went "ugh Blizzard really is an awful company, going way too overboard with their promotional material." I wasn't even that surprised.

Now I see this headline and that earlier one makes more sense 😂

While it's tragic that the mountain is going to add to its death toll on this, the idea of people queued up on the world's tallest peak just for limited-time virtual merch, made me chuckle a bit.
After that Pokemon Go stampede in Central Park all those years ago, I'm feel like stunts like that are far more plausible than ever.
Edit: I also keep forgetting about the stuff RedBull does these days...
- Yeah that's the thing. It would be outragiously stupid way to advertise their things, but sadly that does not make it impossible...
they used the lich King to put people in thier place.

I don't know much about it but I think trying to climb that mountain might be dangerous

Yes, that's why they do it
- So everything is fine then.

Into Thin Air x 100

Reading that book made me decide trying to climb Everest is a bad idea.

Every chapter made me sure I didn't want to climb everest.
After reading that book, I laugh at the comments around here thinking a summit is available to anyone with the money. Aside from the dangers, I was astonished at how long people have to stay at the various camps to acclimate.
"Lazy fucks just leave their trash up there!"
Well, a couple of pounds of gear can easily be the difference in life and death.
EDIT: Should not have commented this around a bunch of fat fucks who don't leave their couch, let alone read about summiting Everest.
Hiked a few miles today. Flat terrain, super easy except for the sandy bits. Anyway, I no longer carry a pistol because that's 3lbs. of steel and ammo I don't need. BIG difference.

Okay, it took me a minute to realize this wasn't a bunch of Star Trek fans stranded on Everest.