[Travel] all this Mount Everest shennannigans....wtf

[The Clamp]

i mean 7 dead this week as hundreds of climbers "queue" in the death zone @ 8000 ft to make a final approach to the summit and get their picture taken , what an absolute lead off bucket list bollockery.......a real indication of how ****ing stupid people are.

Hipster generation seeking an “experience”. Hope they got what they were looking for.

 

[symyjym]

Might as well set up a pressurised cable car these days because they are not really climbing it anyway. The most dangerous thing is acclimatising not the climb.

 

[Palacefinder General]

Hipster generation seeking an “experience”. Hope they got what they were looking for.

It's not though is It? A lot of rich, middle aged Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans and Americans with professional jobs buying their way to another tick box on the bucket list, HB&B bringing up the rear, Union Jack bandana tied round his bald head, his personal sherpa hauling a 2m x 2m flag with a picture of Thatcher on it for Timmy to unveil on the summit, next stop shooting white tigers in Siberia.

 

[Weststander]

Hipster generation seeking an “experience”. Hope they got what they were looking for.

At $45,000 a ‘climber’, with sherpas carrying all the gear. Not exactly exploration.

 

[The Clamp]

It's not though is It? A lot of rich, middle aged Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans and Americans with professional jobs buying their way to another tick box on the bucket list, HB&B bringing up the rear, Union Jack bandana tied round his bald head, his personal sherpa hauling a 2m x 2m flag with a picture of Thatcher on it for Timmy to unveil on the summit, next stop shooting white tigers in Siberia.

Yeah, sounds about right. Oh well, goes to show no matter how much money you have, falling off the world's highest mountain is something of a leveller.

"But I paid forty five thousaghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh".

 

[sydney]

It's not though is It? A lot of rich, middle aged Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans and Americans with professional jobs buying their way to another tick box on the bucket list, HB&B bringing up the rear, Union Jack bandana tied round his bald head, his personal sherpa hauling a 2m x 2m flag with a picture of Thatcher on it for Timmy to unveil on the summit, next stop shooting white tigers in Siberia.

you had me till the last bit ...

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Could climbing Everest be Theresa May's next challenge? please?

She'd probably get the task of climbing Everest, but instead of actually doing it, she'd try to find a 50/50 compromise deal, probably along the lines of working out the distance required to climb to the top of Everest from ground level, and then work out the distance from ground level to the deepest part of the ocean (Mariana Trench) and somehow conclude that she wouldn't actually need to climb at all, because by using that ocean depth data, she can claim that she has already covered the distance required and therefore achieved her goal of reaching the summit. (providing she can get the other MP's to agree to this solution of course)

 

[bhafc99]

She'd probably get the task of climbing Everest, but instead of actually doing it, she'd try to find a 50/50 compromise deal, probably along the lines of working out the distance required to climb to the top of Everest from ground level, and then work out the distance from ground level to the deepest part of the ocean (Mariana Trench) and somehow conclude that she wouldn't actually need to climb at all, because by using that ocean depth data, she can claim that she has already covered the distance required and therefore achieved her goal of reaching the summit. (providing she can get the other MP's to agree to this solution of course)

Meanwhile Jacob Rees-Mogg would set out with nanny and Smithers, the family butler, carrying a wicker hamper of cucumber sandwiches and ginger beer. Dressed in plus fours and a pith helmet, and using a jolly stout walking cane, he'd rely on the 19th century travel journal of one of his ancestors – "Expeditions Across the Uncivilised and Uncharted Lands of the Empire with the Dark Skinned Natives" – for directions. After seven months with no contact, he'd finally re-emerge with a modest tale of having single-handedly fought off yetis, avalanches and more in order to reach the summit. Unfortunately the powder flash on the party's Victorian box camera failed to ignite whilst at the top, so for proof, Mr Rees-Mogg selflessly tied his striped pyjama bottoms (crisply ironed of course) to his walking stick and left them there for future climbers to rediscover.

 

[WATFORD zero]

I'm going to do it someday, but I'm waiting until they put in a cable car to the top like they are planning for Kilimanjaro. None of this climbing nonsense.

I was just about to agree with you until it was pointed out that you really hadn't thought this through thoroughly.

Quick way to kill yourself, I should think. It’s hard enough acclimatising as it is!

Pressurised cable car

 

[sully]

I was just about to agree with you until it was pointed out that you really hadn't thought this through thoroughly.



Pressurised cable car

So you can’t even get out at the summit unless you’ve got a space suit.

What fun!

 

[WATFORD zero]

So you can’t even get out at the summit unless you’ve got a space suit.

What fun!

I'm going right off you

 

[knocky1]

So you can’t even get out at the summit unless you’ve got a space suit.

What fun!

...and if the car broke down you wouldn’t be able to get down alive.

 

[WATFORD zero]

...and if the car broke down you wouldn’t be able to get down alive.

What did the man who invented the drawing board go back to ?

 

[Bod]

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Took photos all the way up and all the way down. They just couldn’t get them on Instagram.

What a pair of clowns. Can’t believe they tried to get up dressed like that.

 

[knocky1]

What a pair of clowns. Can’t believe they tried to get up dressed like that.

It was a hot summer day when they set off 2 months earlier from Kathmandu. Must have surprised them when the weather turned.

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

For charity, with Diane Abbott, Boris Johnson and Lord Falconer.

They should make it to base camp.

If they get Trump, Merkel and Macron there too could they have a government summit?

I'll get my Goretex Mountain Warehouse jacket........

TNBA

TTF

 

[maltaseagull]

A friend has just played a rugby match at the summit of Everest to get in Guinness book of records

Wow that's amazing!

15 a side or 7s?

Pitch must have been a bit small though

Was the ref a sherpa?

 

[Questions]

How the feck do you get a Sherpa up Everest.
My old one wouldn’t ever start in the cold mornings.

 

[Juan Albion]

I'm shocked at the number of people who don't think we are cable of finding a way to make a cable car work. It might have to be very slow but it's a heck of a lot easier than climbing.

 

[WATFORD zero]

I'm shocked at the number of people who don't think we are cable of finding a way to make a cable car work. It might have to be very slow but it's a heck of a lot easier than climbing.

You've got my backing. I think we should ignore the people talking about altitude sickness, acclimatisation, lack of oxygen etc and just believe more