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Honestly that's not true anymore. Very few people are climbing it unaided and it is Sherpas who help that are also killed alongside these climbers. https://www
by celticninja 7y ago
Honestly that's not true anymore. Very few people are climbing it unaided and it is Sherpas who help that are also killed alongside these climbers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48464030 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48464030
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/04/14/599417489/one-third-of-everest-deaths-are-sherpa-climbers https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/04/14/599417489/...
- ubermonkey 7y agoThe Sherpas who climb professionally have also chosen to climb, and are compensated for it.
- rtkwe 7y agoSomewhat. There's the very distorting fact that Sherpa-ing is multiple times more lucrative than any other job they could possibly get in the area.
- ubermonkey 7y agoYes, yes, yes, but you're picking apart a metaphor here. This distinction does not damage the comparison. Cannonball participants are taking large risks, and are imposing those risks on many, many people who have no real way to avoid them. This is unkind and immoral.
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- namdnay 7y agoSherpas are everest climbers, they willingly participate in climbing everest. None of the other road users willingly participated in these idiots' dangerous driving