For a glorious moment I thought it was Blizzard entertainment.
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Is there anything these assholes wont fuckup? I'm here waiting for Warcraft 4 and Starcraft:Ghost, and all Blizzard can do is harrass their female employees and strand mountain climbers. wtfman
I'm glad I'm not the only one to first think it was the company, not the weather event lol
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Hahaha, that was my first thought as well, until I remembered blizzards are a weather phenomema.
Amazing that there are even 1000 people climbing it at the same time. I shudder to think what the once pristine mountainside used to look like vs now.
It looks like a garbage trail littered with corpses. https://allthatsinteresting.com/mount-everest-bodies
The world’s largest monument to vanity.
Honestly, as long as the rich assholes are dying and not the native guides, I'm seeing it as a honey pot situation. Not nice for the environment there, but still a net positive.
Better living through technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Delsalle
Didier Delsalle (born May 6, 1957, in Aix-en-Provence, France) is a former fighter pilot and helicopter test pilot. On May 14, 2005, he became the first (and only) person to land a helicopter, the Eurocopter AS350 Squirrel, on the 8,848 m (29,030 ft) summit of Mount Everest.[1]
Future archeologists will welcome our preserved samples of DNA the same way we did Ötzi the Iceman.
Watched 14 Peaks last week and when they got to Mount Everest, there was a literal line of like 100+ people queued all the way up to the top of the mountain.
They're mostly waiting for good weather during a short climbing season. It's not year round. So basically everyone goes at once
A lot are trekkers rather than climbers if that helps. Their environmental footprint is much smaller.
Man, first Overwatch 2 and now this.
Wtf are 1000 climbers doing on Mt Everest.
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