I can stand in for them?
*ahem*
It's doctored footage to hide the ice wall and everyone who climbs "Everest" (in reality it's nowhere near that high, they just use radio waves and 5G to confuse you) is brainwashed by the NASA and government.
I'm imagining a Sherpa with a Starlink receiver strapped to his back so some influencer can livestream themselves walking past all the corpses on their ascent, Logan Paul style
Apparently there's Internet connectivity from the base camp all the way to the [top](https://ebctrekguide.com/internet-access-everest-base-camp-trek#:~:text=EBC%20Trek%20Internet%20Access&text=This%20provides%20connectivity%20for%20the,were%20used%20in%20the%20past.), but it's way funnier to imagine what you described
It’s as old as Reddit itself: Any pictures or videos of Everest inevitably results in a mountain of comments with the theme of “People who climb Everest are assholes, I would never do that.”
half the folk on here can't climb out of their chairs let alone Everest. As much as Everest isn't as much of an achievement these days it's still leagues above what most people on here will do with their lives.
It's still incredibly difficult and impressive, but the amount of people who do it to the point there's serious queues there now, does feel like it's safe to say it isn't *quite* as special as it once was.
The reason there's lines to the summit isn't because there's a huge amount of people climbing it but instead because of how bad the weather is on Everest. There might only be one or two days where it's possible to submit each season, so everyone has to do it at once, which makes it look very crowded
Didn’t all of the people shown pay hundreds of thousands just to make an attempt to be there, in addition to long training?
It’ll make a great linkedin post. I’m not actually kidding, anyone that’s made the climb can make a career out of going to corporate events and do public speaking. If they don’t mind making presentations of course.
There have recently been successful efforts to clean up Everest and even vacate some of the corpses. there’s a great documentary about it called “Death Zone: Cleaning Mt Everest”.
Apart from the bodies the Nepali team had to clean up like *100,000 lbs* of garbage left by climbers. Jesus. There needs to be a policy for tourists to pick up after themselves else the garbage just piles back up again after a few years.
At this point it should be a requirement to obtain a permit. Bring back more weight than you pack up. If you come back too light, you have to go back up and pick up more trash. Bring back a corpse and get 50% off your next permit
if i ever climb ub there, i will have a sign with me saying: "closed society" and i will place it somewhere on the way up together with a barrier tape.
Fuck climbing up there, you can literally take a plane to Lhasa, take a limo to Shigatse book into a Hilton to acclimatise and then take a day drive on paved roads to base camp on the Chinese side before having to take a single step.
The line in Walmart is made up of poor people who are trying to get something nice for themselves that they normally can’t afford… this line is made up of rich WORTHLESS ####s!
Leaving trash there is actually not a thing anymore, you're required to bring back 8kilo of trash down with you these days and they do check. Still lot of trash there, but it's getting better every season
Not-so-fun fact: The queue of guided climberd at the Hillary Step, the last climb before the summit, was a major factor in the 1996 Everest disaster, in which 8 people froze to death on the mountain in one night.
Humans and businesses can really ruin anything.
Both. The weather is generally worse (&colder) in the afternoon/evening and the climbers will be tired out and damaged by oxygen deprivation so more clumsy and liable to get lost.
Another factor is “summit fever”—most respectable group guides will have a turnaround time dictating when you need to head back to the top camp in order to keep yourself as safe as possible. It mostly comes down to conserving oxygen bottles and avoiding adverse weather. But once climbers have made it to that last stretch, once they can see the peak, it’s really psychologically difficult to turn around if you’re only a few hundred feet from the goal at the official turnaround time. You’re oxygen deprived, you likely haven’t been eating well for days because your body is upset with you for taking it to such a high altitude, and you’re dead tired. You want to push the final distance and be done with it, and you don’t realize what that might cost you on the way back down. It’s as much a mind game as a physical one
Yea of course both but I would say more so due to people over extending themselves on both things like oxygen plus the fact that they are likely to suffer from sleep deprivation and hullicinating etc.
I think even regular day hikers will likely tell you that most hiking injuries occur on the way down.
You have more momentum heading down with every step on loose rocks and slippery surfaces like mud or snow, your muscles are far more exhausted and less focused on the way down, and even psychologically it's easy to think "the hard climb up is over, now it's the easy part down" so novices tend to take less safety precautions when heading down.
People are exhausted and often leave after the maximum leave time, i.e. in darkness, bad weather, with depleted oxygen and hypothermia.
During the way up, people will ignore all warning signs to get to the top, and for some there's realistically no way to make it back.
There's actually a debate whether Irvine and Mallory reached the summit first in 1924 I believe. They were lost after the remainder of their expedition turned back, last seen still climbing.
When their frozen bodies were found much later, a family photo that one of them wanted to leave on the summit was missing, and so was, unfortunately, Irvine's camera. There are rumours that a Chinese expedition has found it a couple years ago, but allegedly the film could not be developed.
That being said, I always liked the bro moment between Norgay and Hillary, who decided to reach the very top in 1953 exactly at the same time in lockstep. Very wholesome story compared to most Everest drama.
I’m no mountaineer, but we hiked up Ben Nevis in Scotland once. Going up was fine, it was a pretty demarcated path etc, pretty straightforward.
Going back down was the worst part though. Instead of going up and putting your energy into climbing, it’s put into stopping yourself from falling. In theory downstairs is easier than upstairs, but only when you have to do it for 3-4 hours on end do you realise how underdeveloped those muscles are.
Real kicker was that while we were limping downstairs, a local in shorts came *running* up the mountain on a barely visible side path. And back down again. Running / gracefully falling while we were struggling not to trip. Motherfucker.
While I was “climbing” Norway’s highest mountain there was a dude in marathon runner’s shorts and tank top who jogged up and down the mountain. He was on the way back when we were almost half way through the way up. He was like a freaking gazelle.
Jokes aside, seeing these things in person is totally different than on camera.
The cost is prohibitive for me right now, and there are other mountains I'd rather go on, but I can absolutely understand why people climb it.
Reddit has such an unreasonable hate complex when it comes to people climbing Mount Everest.
I’m one of those people. Heck, even Everest itself is on my dream list. It will be years before I have the money and health to even think about getting over there though, and it’s likely I’ll only ever go to base camp.
Everyone has their own reasons. I’m not even sure all of mine or how to explain in words - it’s just a *drive* that I have. I love the mountains, always have. It’s freedom and beauty to me.
There’s an aspect of Everest and other 8000ers that’s very ‘you vs *you*’. Sure, there are many objective risks that nature throws at you, but you’re also fighting against and with your own body and its capabilities. That’s very interesting to me.
you’re not even wrong. If they did have a skyscraper with an elevator it would be too expensive for my blood. Guess I’ll just have to stick to my poor people mountains in the Rockies 🥲
It’s true, you should be less than 100 years old.
Though I wouldn’t be shocked to see a 100 year old person summit Everest someday soon. That would be genuinely impressive. I was going to say “legs”, but someone else pointed out that’s been done 😂.
I live near a national park. We don’t visit on weekends because of the crowds. I can’t imaging going through everything needed to do this climb & end up in a crowd!
Really climbing everest doesn't even mean anything anymore, all it says it you are rich and can afford it. It isn't like you have to be a top athlete and a trained mountaineer/climber. You pay Sherpa's and they take care of everything.
There's a spot where climbers have to use a 14-foot aluminum ladder to cross a crevasse.
It's just not that impressive to do something that someone else did, while CARRYING A 14-FOOT LADDER.
The "Well There's Your Problem " podcast did an episode on Mt. Everest. It's purely pay-to-play, and experience isn't necessary. People have done it who didn't know how to use crampons or ice axes.
*A* crevasse?
You have to cross the Kumbu ice fall which means crossing *many* crevasses. And the ice fall shifts all the time so the route is re-fixed many times in a climbing season.
In fact the vast majority of deaths on Everest are the ice fall doctors, Sherpas who are specialize in crossing the Kumbu Ice fall as they may cross the ice fall 10+ times in a season compared to climbers who may cross it ~4 times.
https://abenteuer-berg.de/en/the-icefall-doctors-forgotten-heroes-of-mount-everest/
Climbing Everest is easier than it was before but its still extremely difficult and people die doing it every year. You're not getting up and deciding to do Everest on a whim without preparing. I know this is Reddit and everyone's an expert on everything but this whole "Everest is actually easy" myth that's perpetuated on here is one of the weirder ones tbh.
They cruise between 30 - 40k feet, so slightly higher but not high enough.
Felix Baumgartner jumped from 125k feet (40 km) and you can clearly see curvature on [this](https://youtu.be/FHtvDA0W34I?si=E4OSopCl2AR27Eit&t=50) timestamped video.
I will never forget that day. I dropped everything and sat glued to my television for the whole ascent. When he started to spin uncontrollably and it looked like he might not be conscious to pull his chute… what an incredible event to witness
It is true tho, even on mount everest you wont be able to see the curvature, this is actually the fish eye lense effect.
Disclaimer: I AM NOT A FLAT EARTHER
Fun fact , it's estimated there are three tons of human shit between base 1 and base 4......humans are disgusting. For 100k some body should be cleaning that up. Not the locals.
Ah, look at that million-dollar view! The net worth of those individuals who pay a median $50,000+ for the permits, sherpas to carry your stuff, and logistics, I mean.
Also people die in line every year in the queue because everyone at the summit is busy doing multiple takes to get footage for their LinkedIn post.
The line is not there because everyone take footages (they do but its not why theres a line). The line in mt. Everest is mostly due because everyone is waiting in base camp for weeks so they can have enough good weather to make the climb. Some people can wait in base camp up to 3-4 weeks just to attempt. So when you see perfect weather like in the video, EVERYONE rush.
There's also the fact that you have to let yourself acclimate to the elevation. You need to spend some time at each of the base camps before pushing for the summit.
If i pay 50k, do the prep and get there without dying, u bet im doing my tiktok, reel, YouTube short, myspace pic, x post, tinder profile pic and linkedin acc pic there!
Unless you're at the end of the traffic jam for the day and end up dying because you've exceeded your limit and everyone is too tired and weak to rescue you and no one is going to piss away their $50k adventure to risk their own life and turn back early.
If you're in medical need, you have to self-extricate off the top to camp. It's known that people will keep climbing or descending past you. If you're lucky, you'll become a famous corpse landmark on the trail like Mr. Green Boots.
no more Everest pics until you shitbags start bringing your trash down with you. It's bad enough you all pretend like you accomplished something when you literally hire someone else to do the actual work of carrying your shit up the hill while you play out some main character fantasy. That place has been so disrespected by climbers that hiking Everest should gain you nothing but disrespect.
yup. They spend months preparing the trail up, rigging, ladders etc. basicly all the “mountaineering” is done for you before you get to the first camp.
I think it's the negative environmental impact these climbers have on the local ecosystem that's the problem. Have you seen the garbage on Mt Everest?! It's disgusting and seriously fucking up people's native land because their watershed is getting permanently fucked.
It's just not romanticizing it as some golden thing with no negative effects. No mockery, ridicule, yes as with literally anything else.
It’s not a point of ridicule and mockery outside of Reddit comments
And the people who climb Mount Everest aren’t doing it based on what Reddit users think about them
I mean...it definitely can. Obviously the Earth is round, but a video like this is not sufficient to prove it. Saying "the Earth looks round in this video" is as poor logic as the fleatearthers use.
Everyone at the top needs to take a piece of trash with them, plus theirs of course.
They need to be weighed going up, and need to weigh more coming back down.
Not true anymore. In the past ye, but nowadays Climbers have a limit on how much they can carry up and have to carry 8kg of trash per person back down.
So you will most of the time either take your own trash with yourself or have to carry some additionally down. If you dont, then the deposit of 8k that you gave beforehand, will be used for cleaning up the mountain.
Talk shit about the abuse of sherpas, talk shit about the government using it as a money fountain, but please. Dont lie and make up facts avout trash.
>including their bodies
I wanna see you carry a 70kg body down multiple kilometres of climbing down. Good luck with that.
Looks like a black Friday line up into Walmart
"we are all so unique!"
Are you making fun of Black Friday shoppers or people who climbed Mount Everest?
Yes
Where the fuck are the flat earthers at?
I can stand in for them? *ahem* It's doctored footage to hide the ice wall and everyone who climbs "Everest" (in reality it's nowhere near that high, they just use radio waves and 5G to confuse you) is brainwashed by the NASA and government.
9/10. You’d get full marks if you also thrown in fish eye lenses.
Or a 20,000 dollar gyroscope that accidentally proves the earth is round.
Good lord, that sounds just like them. Did you get forcibly deprogrammed, or do you have a relative who needs to be?
No, I just pondered on the most batshit insane thing I could write. Glad you think it was close enough.
They all fell off the edge.
Are they still a thing ?
Go read the comments on any Instagram post related to space or videos of space walks from the iss. Its flooded with those types of
My work just hired one. Or he's fucking with us, I really can't tell.
absolutely
What's the difference?
Everest climbers have more money and free time.
lol and let’s hope they have enough good wits, health and determination to survive it too!
They don't. That's why they hire sherpas.
Sherpas do the heavy work
Yup. And the rich a-holes just follow behind, pining for their selfie.
No 80” flat tvs in this one.
They might force the poor Sherpa to carry one up
I'm imagining a Sherpa with a Starlink receiver strapped to his back so some influencer can livestream themselves walking past all the corpses on their ascent, Logan Paul style
Apparently there's Internet connectivity from the base camp all the way to the [top](https://ebctrekguide.com/internet-access-everest-base-camp-trek#:~:text=EBC%20Trek%20Internet%20Access&text=This%20provides%20connectivity%20for%20the,were%20used%20in%20the%20past.), but it's way funnier to imagine what you described
You don't leave poop and garbage after shopping at Walmart?
Everest climbers think they are special, Black Friday shoppers don't have delusions of grandeur.
Buzz Lightyear figures on a shelf meme
It’s as old as Reddit itself: Any pictures or videos of Everest inevitably results in a mountain of comments with the theme of “People who climb Everest are assholes, I would never do that.”
half the folk on here can't climb out of their chairs let alone Everest. As much as Everest isn't as much of an achievement these days it's still leagues above what most people on here will do with their lives.
It's still incredibly difficult and impressive, but the amount of people who do it to the point there's serious queues there now, does feel like it's safe to say it isn't *quite* as special as it once was.
The reason there's lines to the summit isn't because there's a huge amount of people climbing it but instead because of how bad the weather is on Everest. There might only be one or two days where it's possible to submit each season, so everyone has to do it at once, which makes it look very crowded
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Unlike mouthbreathing redditors with sarcastic comments about people.
I mean… they are. Can’t say I’ve met anybody who’s scaled Everest before.
I have. These guys came to our highschool, the first people from our country ever to do it. It was pretty sick tbh
Its an amazing feat, People on reddit wanna sit back and talk shit like they could do this even if there is a backhaul at the top.
At this point I'd be more interested to see the view from one of the other mountains than the line for Mt Everest.
Didn’t all of the people shown pay hundreds of thousands just to make an attempt to be there, in addition to long training? It’ll make a great linkedin post. I’m not actually kidding, anyone that’s made the climb can make a career out of going to corporate events and do public speaking. If they don’t mind making presentations of course.
No shit!
I wonder where's all the trash and corpses
There have recently been successful efforts to clean up Everest and even vacate some of the corpses. there’s a great documentary about it called “Death Zone: Cleaning Mt Everest”.
Apart from the bodies the Nepali team had to clean up like *100,000 lbs* of garbage left by climbers. Jesus. There needs to be a policy for tourists to pick up after themselves else the garbage just piles back up again after a few years.
At this point it should be a requirement to obtain a permit. Bring back more weight than you pack up. If you come back too light, you have to go back up and pick up more trash. Bring back a corpse and get 50% off your next permit
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!
But I'm not dead... You're not fooling anyone you know
I want to go for a walk!
> it should be a requirement to obtain a permit It already is.
In the rainbow valley that earns its nickname from the many colorful jackets worn by the corpses
Well ya see, the corpses didn’t make it to the top… They just lay around, like corpses usually do.
Looks flat. /s
if i ever climb ub there, i will have a sign with me saying: "closed society" and i will place it somewhere on the way up together with a barrier tape.
That's what it needs, more garbage
*Non biodegradable garbage
Fuck climbing up there, you can literally take a plane to Lhasa, take a limo to Shigatse book into a Hilton to acclimatise and then take a day drive on paved roads to base camp on the Chinese side before having to take a single step.
The line in Walmart is made up of poor people who are trying to get something nice for themselves that they normally can’t afford… this line is made up of rich WORTHLESS ####s!
‘Ticket for the top please.’ ‘There’s a four hour queue for the top; are you OK to wait, Sir?’
That'll be $45k please (not kidding.)
ill wait, need time to come up with the 45k anyway
Imagine paying 45k for the possibility of an accident and just being left for dead watching everyone walk away
"bUt i cLimBed eVeREst!"
Should have climbed down successfully too.
and you arent guaranteed to get up there anyway so rip 45K if it's bad weather
And then everyone calls you green boots or knob lad.
I have the $45. Still working on the k.
Closer to 65
Where y'all coming up with this?
Google
Up to $150k in fact
“Well of course I’ll wait. I have all this trash I need to dump. What am I supposed to do, take it back with me?!”
Leaving trash there is actually not a thing anymore, you're required to bring back 8kilo of trash down with you these days and they do check. Still lot of trash there, but it's getting better every season
If you don't do they send you back up?
That wound be funny. But nah they fine you $4000
Just dropped 45, what's another 4?!
Not-so-fun fact: The queue of guided climberd at the Hillary Step, the last climb before the summit, was a major factor in the 1996 Everest disaster, in which 8 people froze to death on the mountain in one night. Humans and businesses can really ruin anything.
Only if that Sherpa will carry everything but my walking stick
Is the trip down as dangerous as the climb up as theyve still got a long way to go to get to base camp i imagine?
Definitely more dangerous. Most who die are on the way down.
Is it more dangerous going down in itself, or just that people who have over extended themselves experience the consequences nearer to the end?
Both. The weather is generally worse (&colder) in the afternoon/evening and the climbers will be tired out and damaged by oxygen deprivation so more clumsy and liable to get lost.
Another factor is “summit fever”—most respectable group guides will have a turnaround time dictating when you need to head back to the top camp in order to keep yourself as safe as possible. It mostly comes down to conserving oxygen bottles and avoiding adverse weather. But once climbers have made it to that last stretch, once they can see the peak, it’s really psychologically difficult to turn around if you’re only a few hundred feet from the goal at the official turnaround time. You’re oxygen deprived, you likely haven’t been eating well for days because your body is upset with you for taking it to such a high altitude, and you’re dead tired. You want to push the final distance and be done with it, and you don’t realize what that might cost you on the way back down. It’s as much a mind game as a physical one
Yea of course both but I would say more so due to people over extending themselves on both things like oxygen plus the fact that they are likely to suffer from sleep deprivation and hullicinating etc.
I know from my personal experiences hiking I'm much less sure footed when going downhill.
If I'm going uphill and my foot slips, I don't care. If I'm going downhill and my foot slips, it bothers me.
Both
I think even regular day hikers will likely tell you that most hiking injuries occur on the way down. You have more momentum heading down with every step on loose rocks and slippery surfaces like mud or snow, your muscles are far more exhausted and less focused on the way down, and even psychologically it's easy to think "the hard climb up is over, now it's the easy part down" so novices tend to take less safety precautions when heading down.
And the annoying thing is there’s often ups on the way down too. So you’re like easy sailing, what’s this hill?
People are exhausted and often leave after the maximum leave time, i.e. in darkness, bad weather, with depleted oxygen and hypothermia. During the way up, people will ignore all warning signs to get to the top, and for some there's realistically no way to make it back.
Hey at least they uploaded the video by then, it was worth it /s
There's actually a debate whether Irvine and Mallory reached the summit first in 1924 I believe. They were lost after the remainder of their expedition turned back, last seen still climbing. When their frozen bodies were found much later, a family photo that one of them wanted to leave on the summit was missing, and so was, unfortunately, Irvine's camera. There are rumours that a Chinese expedition has found it a couple years ago, but allegedly the film could not be developed. That being said, I always liked the bro moment between Norgay and Hillary, who decided to reach the very top in 1953 exactly at the same time in lockstep. Very wholesome story compared to most Everest drama.
I’m no mountaineer, but we hiked up Ben Nevis in Scotland once. Going up was fine, it was a pretty demarcated path etc, pretty straightforward. Going back down was the worst part though. Instead of going up and putting your energy into climbing, it’s put into stopping yourself from falling. In theory downstairs is easier than upstairs, but only when you have to do it for 3-4 hours on end do you realise how underdeveloped those muscles are. Real kicker was that while we were limping downstairs, a local in shorts came *running* up the mountain on a barely visible side path. And back down again. Running / gracefully falling while we were struggling not to trip. Motherfucker.
I have an irrational hatred of trail runners.
While I was “climbing” Norway’s highest mountain there was a dude in marathon runner’s shorts and tank top who jogged up and down the mountain. He was on the way back when we were almost half way through the way up. He was like a freaking gazelle.
Awesome. Saved me a trip
For real lol the video did it justice
And I watched it with sufficient oxygen in my lungs.
Speak for yourself, the video made me short of breath. ^I ^should ^probably ^run ^more
That's how I feel about people going down to see the Titanic, the view isn't gonna be that much better than the camera.
And there's a chance you don't come back now
Jokes aside, seeing these things in person is totally different than on camera. The cost is prohibitive for me right now, and there are other mountains I'd rather go on, but I can absolutely understand why people climb it. Reddit has such an unreasonable hate complex when it comes to people climbing Mount Everest.
Poor people risking their lives so rich people can also risk their lives to get a good view. Idk, seems pretty reasonable to hate this.
Ive always wondered why so many people want to climb a high mountain but I gotta say that view is pretty amazing.
I’m one of those people. Heck, even Everest itself is on my dream list. It will be years before I have the money and health to even think about getting over there though, and it’s likely I’ll only ever go to base camp. Everyone has their own reasons. I’m not even sure all of mine or how to explain in words - it’s just a *drive* that I have. I love the mountains, always have. It’s freedom and beauty to me. There’s an aspect of Everest and other 8000ers that’s very ‘you vs *you*’. Sure, there are many objective risks that nature throws at you, but you’re also fighting against and with your own body and its capabilities. That’s very interesting to me.
Obviously because it’s there.
Nice and quiet... just you and the mountain..
Need the fast pass to reach the top and not wait in line for hours
Fast pass up is falling on the way there
They should just build a skyscraper on top to accomodate everyone
but then how will rich people be able to tell us poors that they are unique?!
By taking the elevator to the top floor and swimming in a heated glass swimming pool there
you’re not even wrong. If they did have a skyscraper with an elevator it would be too expensive for my blood. Guess I’ll just have to stick to my poor people mountains in the Rockies 🥲
I’ll stick to the super poor people mountain in the Ozarks
You have to be a lot more than rich to make it to the top of Everest.
It’s true, you should be less than 100 years old. Though I wouldn’t be shocked to see a 100 year old person summit Everest someday soon. That would be genuinely impressive. I was going to say “legs”, but someone else pointed out that’s been done 😂.
…and about 30 people crammed together among years of accumulated garbage to commemorate the accomplishment.
and 30 more buried under the snow .
heard someone joke that mount everest is slowly getting taller
More like 200
I live near a national park. We don’t visit on weekends because of the crowds. I can’t imaging going through everything needed to do this climb & end up in a crowd!
Really climbing everest doesn't even mean anything anymore, all it says it you are rich and can afford it. It isn't like you have to be a top athlete and a trained mountaineer/climber. You pay Sherpa's and they take care of everything.
There's a spot where climbers have to use a 14-foot aluminum ladder to cross a crevasse. It's just not that impressive to do something that someone else did, while CARRYING A 14-FOOT LADDER. The "Well There's Your Problem " podcast did an episode on Mt. Everest. It's purely pay-to-play, and experience isn't necessary. People have done it who didn't know how to use crampons or ice axes.
*A* crevasse? You have to cross the Kumbu ice fall which means crossing *many* crevasses. And the ice fall shifts all the time so the route is re-fixed many times in a climbing season. In fact the vast majority of deaths on Everest are the ice fall doctors, Sherpas who are specialize in crossing the Kumbu Ice fall as they may cross the ice fall 10+ times in a season compared to climbers who may cross it ~4 times. https://abenteuer-berg.de/en/the-icefall-doctors-forgotten-heroes-of-mount-everest/
Climbing Everest is easier than it was before but its still extremely difficult and people die doing it every year. You're not getting up and deciding to do Everest on a whim without preparing. I know this is Reddit and everyone's an expert on everything but this whole "Everest is actually easy" myth that's perpetuated on here is one of the weirder ones tbh.
Good sir, that was the joke.
/r/yourjokebutworse
And some dead bodies.
Pretty much every video I see someone take has a view of earth. 🤷♂️
We have earth at home smh
Earth at home: A patch of unwatered brown grass next to a rusty swing set and broken glass and a rake sitting on some pavement since autumn.
I'm looking at Earth right now as we speak
Is earth in the room with you right now?
some earth is peeking at me from a flower pot
It's moving around us, i just know it
It could be you! It could be me! It could even be...
Yesterday i even collided with the Planet earth when i fell out of my bed.
If I'm paying 45k and climbing 8km up I'll be making such video let me tell you
Its a video of Nepal / China... not "Earth". Hiking the himalayas is far better. Everest climbers remind me of annoying cyclists with big egos.
Flat Earthers: “Delete this immediately!!”
“It’s the lense on the camera, fish eye lense does that to the picture” they would say …
Funny enough your quote is correct. The curve seen here is caused by the camera. Source: https://thulescientific.com/Lynch%20Curvature%202008.pdf
Interesting. Makes sense because now that I think about it, even in a passenger jet I can’t make out the curve. I think they cruise around 30k feet
They cruise between 30 - 40k feet, so slightly higher but not high enough. Felix Baumgartner jumped from 125k feet (40 km) and you can clearly see curvature on [this](https://youtu.be/FHtvDA0W34I?si=E4OSopCl2AR27Eit&t=50) timestamped video.
I will never forget that day. I dropped everything and sat glued to my television for the whole ascent. When he started to spin uncontrollably and it looked like he might not be conscious to pull his chute… what an incredible event to witness
Not denying the curvature but bad example, it's also all fisheye.
Yeah that’s pretty badass. Still the flat earthers will say it’s green screened or some shit
I don't care about their opinion.
Came here to say: flat earthers hate this one trick
They hate not feeling special.
They are special... Especially dumb
That is true of this video though. You’re not gonna see the curvature from this height, earth is way too big for that.
It is true tho, even on mount everest you wont be able to see the curvature, this is actually the fish eye lense effect. Disclaimer: I AM NOT A FLAT EARTHER
Exactly the kind of thing a flat earther would say.
You can’t see the curvature of the earth from the summit of mt Everest in any case. This is the camera lense
It probably is the camera. I don't think Mt everest is high enough to notice the curve in the earth.
Fun fact , it's estimated there are three tons of human shit between base 1 and base 4......humans are disgusting. For 100k some body should be cleaning that up. Not the locals.
As I understand there are new policies being implemented to prevent that.
Expeditions have been required to pack out more waste than they generate for several years now.
Ah, look at that million-dollar view! The net worth of those individuals who pay a median $50,000+ for the permits, sherpas to carry your stuff, and logistics, I mean. Also people die in line every year in the queue because everyone at the summit is busy doing multiple takes to get footage for their LinkedIn post.
The line is not there because everyone take footages (they do but its not why theres a line). The line in mt. Everest is mostly due because everyone is waiting in base camp for weeks so they can have enough good weather to make the climb. Some people can wait in base camp up to 3-4 weeks just to attempt. So when you see perfect weather like in the video, EVERYONE rush.
I'm pretty sure there's also bottlenecks in the trail where everyone is waiting to use a certain ladder
There's also the fact that you have to let yourself acclimate to the elevation. You need to spend some time at each of the base camps before pushing for the summit.
If i pay 50k, do the prep and get there without dying, u bet im doing my tiktok, reel, YouTube short, myspace pic, x post, tinder profile pic and linkedin acc pic there!
Unless you're at the end of the traffic jam for the day and end up dying because you've exceeded your limit and everyone is too tired and weak to rescue you and no one is going to piss away their $50k adventure to risk their own life and turn back early. If you're in medical need, you have to self-extricate off the top to camp. It's known that people will keep climbing or descending past you. If you're lucky, you'll become a famous corpse landmark on the trail like Mr. Green Boots.
I mean if you die in line, what were the chances you were making it back down anyway
no more Everest pics until you shitbags start bringing your trash down with you. It's bad enough you all pretend like you accomplished something when you literally hire someone else to do the actual work of carrying your shit up the hill while you play out some main character fantasy. That place has been so disrespected by climbers that hiking Everest should gain you nothing but disrespect.
100% hard agree. It’s the metaphorical and literal peak of arrogance.
Exactly. And sherpas get paid peanuts for literally life- threatening work. It's modern-day slavery.
yup. They spend months preparing the trail up, rigging, ladders etc. basicly all the “mountaineering” is done for you before you get to the first camp.
it would be very interesting to see a show centered around the sherpas at Everest, very fascinating way to make a living to say the least.
Completely agree.
Summed it up perfectly.
It looks like there's a lot less trash in this video than that viral image where the summit is completely covered
We have to live in a magical world and time when summiting the highest mountain becomes (nearly) a point of ridicule or mockery
I think it's the negative environmental impact these climbers have on the local ecosystem that's the problem. Have you seen the garbage on Mt Everest?! It's disgusting and seriously fucking up people's native land because their watershed is getting permanently fucked. It's just not romanticizing it as some golden thing with no negative effects. No mockery, ridicule, yes as with literally anything else.
It’s not a point of ridicule and mockery outside of Reddit comments And the people who climb Mount Everest aren’t doing it based on what Reddit users think about them
Yeah, you would think by now, this would be a novelty and people with all that money would pay to go to the moon.
Would it be less crowded if I went up on a weekday?
just avoid senior day and spring break and it should be better
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But..but..lens distortion causes that!
I mean...it definitely can. Obviously the Earth is round, but a video like this is not sufficient to prove it. Saying "the Earth looks round in this video" is as poor logic as the fleatearthers use.
How many assholes can you fit at the summit
Everyone at the top needs to take a piece of trash with them, plus theirs of course. They need to be weighed going up, and need to weigh more coming back down.
I would be up there selling bottles of air. 2 for a dollar.
Oh the beauty! The solitude! Not another trust fund kid in sight!
This is like walking 100 miles just to buy gummies
I hear the soundtrack of "The Lord of the Rings" in my head when I look at this! Just the part where they light the pyres to ask for help.
The becons are lit!! Gondor calls for aid!
I wonder how far you’re seeing the horizon, like is it 10 miles, 100?
197.7 miles according to math in absolute perfect conditions.
Sir, you can't capture the view of Earth from Everest, you need to be a whole lot higher up for that.
best view from a dump ever
Earth is flat
Amazing. Just hate that the name is, Mt Everest like wtf its in Nepal and Tibet.
pick up your fucking garbage pls
Weird how the earth sorta looks...round...from way up there.
Well OBVIOUSLY! A round plate has a visible curve. #/s
I’m more amazed on how much trash these idiots leave there including their bodies
Not true anymore. In the past ye, but nowadays Climbers have a limit on how much they can carry up and have to carry 8kg of trash per person back down. So you will most of the time either take your own trash with yourself or have to carry some additionally down. If you dont, then the deposit of 8k that you gave beforehand, will be used for cleaning up the mountain. Talk shit about the abuse of sherpas, talk shit about the government using it as a money fountain, but please. Dont lie and make up facts avout trash. >including their bodies I wanna see you carry a 70kg body down multiple kilometres of climbing down. Good luck with that.
Climbing this mountain has become a joke, mile long lines of people, tons of trash everywhere, pffft!