Every last CEO, internet influencer and wealthy investor in the world has “climbing Everest” on their bucket list to validate their identities and they want all their employees to see the pictures of them spending absurd amounts of money to climb a mountain and a see a view almost as high as a passenger airliner.
I’ve said for a while that Nepal and China will have to do something drastic soon.
The deaths and trash and bodies are piling up, and eventually it’s going to make the entire “adventure” so repulsive that people are going to stop spending tens of thousands to go try to climb a rock.
Either they’re going to radically restrict access to the mountain, or if they really want to keep the tourism money coming, they will have to consider developing the region. Concrete and asphalt basecamp with roads to nearby cities, facilities and helipads and a reinforced complex of resorts and hotels designed to withstand storms and with oxygen bars on every level. Stairs and guardrails all the way up to the summit and drone-patrols watching for people passing out.
Every last CEO, internet influencer and wealthy investor in the world has “climbing Everest” on their bucket list to validate their identities and they want all their employees to see the pictures of them spending absurd amounts of money to climb a mountain and a see a view almost as high as a passenger airliner.
I’ve said for a while that Nepal and China will have to do something drastic soon.
The deaths and trash and bodies are piling up, and eventually it’s going to make the entire “adventure” so repulsive that people are going to stop spending tens of thousands to go try to climb a rock.
Either they’re going to radically restrict access to the mountain, or if they really want to keep the tourism money coming, they will have to consider developing the region. Concrete and asphalt basecamp with roads to nearby cities, facilities and helipads and a reinforced complex of resorts and hotels designed to withstand storms and with oxygen bars on every level. Stairs and guardrails all the way up to the summit and drone-patrols watching for people passing out.