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Anonymous at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 02:41:38 UTC No. 216683
There was a two hour queue to climb past the bottleneck at K2 .
What's the fuckin point of climbing mountains, even supposedly the most hardest one if there's gonna be lines full of tourists like a Disneyland ride?
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 02:51:06 UTC No. 216684
idiots climbing short cold mountains instead of Mauna Kea, the worlds tallest mountain, easy to get to and in a nice climate
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Dec 2024 05:49:24 UTC No. 217045
>>216683
Bad luck
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Dec 2024 17:12:58 UTC No. 217063
>>216683
The climbing season is incredibly short to begin with and inclement weather can make it even shorter.
If there's two or three teams on the mountain and the weather is nice, the expedition leaders will space out the summit assaults (which can take days) to avoid traffic.
If there's an incoming storm, though, it's either go now or go home and try again next year, spending tens of thousands more dollars.
To call them just a bunch of tourists is a little disingenuous. They're still experienced climbers. It's not like they're just on an easy hike while everyone around them is killing themselves.
Anonymous at Thu, 2 Jan 2025 18:05:36 UTC No. 218872
>>216683
>>217063
not k2 BUT the Everest has become -in some tourism packs- indeed a vanity ride for rich old men. I think the Moon youtube dug up a website which was "sherpas will carry ALL your stuff + your oxygen, luxury rest tents, etc". Not everyone is like that but..the trend is a thing.
>also calling the porters "sherpas" is cringe, sherpa is an ethnicity. Imagine calling the tennis ball boys "the caucasians"
Anonymous at Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:24:03 UTC No. 219998
>>217063
they are experienced ish
This isn't the 90s anymore, the Everest Tourism shit came to K2