RE: Mt. Everest has around 200 dead bodies (pics)
August 19, 2011 at 8:27 pm
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2011 at 8:30 pm by Violet.)
Edk141 Wrote:But why the fuck bother? It's not a useful accomplishment, and it endangers your life so if you have anyone who cares about you it's just being selfish. We should develop aircraft that can land at the summit instead.
I've gotten laid off of a mountain climbing achievement. So I'm going to call bull on it not being useful, right off the bat

If I value the accomplishment: it is useful to my self image, if nothing else.
All using such a crutch to top a mountain does in the eyes of others is make you out to be a major pansy. Now were you going to climb that mountain, or cower in your comfort zone, little man?

Also: eat a raw fish eye.
(August 19, 2011 at 8:06 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Yeah and the guys who developed all the climbing gear and oxygen tanks are losers too. Apparently the summit can be made in 8 hours. It can be made by 76 year olds. It can be made by 15 year olds.
All of these are, of course crutches. But none of them are as bad as letting a machine take you up there with you doing minimal work

Sure, it can be. And as you can see from the corpses: it also can't be. Depends on who's doing it.
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