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There are other safer peaks with equally beautiful and stunning views. When you think about it, doing Everest specifically is really just name dropping ego hump
by goldenkey 10y ago
There are other safer peaks with equally beautiful and stunning views. When you think about it, doing Everest specifically is really just name dropping ego humping. How did people 'live' before we had geo satellites to surface the earth and notify us of the top 10 death defying peaks?
Any way you square it, people who climb everest are not giving much back to humanity in doing so. Its an incredibly selfish act.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoSays who? That's a lot of vitriol about something we've never done. Watch a video about it sometime, maybe it'll seem less like ego and more like an incredibly difficult physical and mental task that 99.99% of humanity could never accomplish. Or, remain cynical and by the way don't watch the Olympics because, you know, selfish.
- goldenkey 10y agoDoesn't have to be Everest though. Everest is chosen because of its rank as one of the tallest. Physical feats do not last, beyond records. Hence an obsession with dangerous feats. Scientific legacy does though. "It makes me feel alive." Great and all but lets not frame it as anything but a selfish roll of the dice.