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This is a normal post It's a strange one
It's so crowded up there there are literally 'traffic jams' of climbers waiting their turn to make the ascent, tons and tons of rubbish, and bodies galore of those who have perished and been left up there.

I was speaking to a serious climber friend of mine who has zero interest in the mountain. He remarked if he was to put that much effort into a climb he would go for one of the unconquered peaks.
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 17:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah
I think it's been a common attitude amongst mountaineers for a while that Everest has become a bit meaningless and a bit of a circus. Personally, I'm fascinated by it and have read quite a few books about it, but even if I had all the money in the world, I wouldn't have any desire to climb it myself.
 (SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 18:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post Do you know what they do when someone dies on Everest?
Nothing, they leave 'm there.

sometimes-interesting.com/2011/06/29/over-200-dead-bodies-on-mount-everest/
 (Bob the Builder killed Captain Alex, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 18:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's quite a long list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_climbing_Mount_Everest
 (I helped save b3ta! Harpago ¯\(°_o)/¯, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 19:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post If you haven't seen it,
This is brilliant: www.imdb.com/title/tt0219671/
 (I helped save b3ta! sir_spicious2000 Crap I've watched: www.filmplop.blogspot.com/, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 19:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post I don't think it's for 'climbers'
It's for a different sort of person, I don't want to belittle the achievement (So much to say the average fit office worker has a 90% chance of doing it) - The climbers I know do climbing for the same reasons the hikers, boat-people (They hate that) and pilots do things alone and dangerous. It's often to be alone doing what you love to do.

Of the few climbing people I know, several have 'done' the Everest thing - the one I talked to recently - since these events - said he thought the 5 Peaks Challenge was actually more kudos.

And also, he inferred, Everest was for those with nothing left, something to prove or frankly a 'bit mental'. "Trekking", he said. "Lemming fucking trekking". He said Everest was a 'resort'

It's not a hobby for me, for sure.
 (I helped save b3ta! zacherynuk @echo off, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 21:55, , Reply)