22:31 Jun 28 2019
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Being back home after what my doctor claims is my last reconstruction surgery on my knee, ( short history when I was a kid I flew out the back of my dad's pickup truck breaking many bones, bashing my head on the tail gate on the way out and landing on my knees blew em when he slammed the truck into a tree at about 40 mph, Fast forward 2 winters ago while ice skating hitting a patch of rough ice, slamming into a tree messed up the right knee real good) today I was catching up on the news while I was in the hospital for 4 weeks. I came across the news about Everest.
I got to say this, to my fellow human beings: Climbing Mt. Everest is pretty stupid. There's a good chance you are going to die. There's no fucking air up there, and long lines of other stupid rich people all waiting to see who will reach the summit first and/or die trying. Nobody's really impressed, millions have already done it before you. What, you died of exhaustion due to oxygen deprivation? NO WAY. You say a storm came along suddenly and froze your ass solid like a flesh popsicle? UNPOSSIBLE! By all means, keep doing what you're doing, dead rich guy. Gives those Sherpa dudes a pretty decent occupation, I suppose, assuming you don't take them down with you. Now those guys are impressive, but being poor and dark-skinned, likely lacking social media accounts as well, we rarely hear anything about them.
It's an incredibly dangerous and steep hike to be sure, but it's a hike nonetheless. Anything you can take absolute amateurs on, give them a few weeks of "acclimation" and set them off is not a mountain climb. How can you enjoy the view when most of your energy is probably aimed towards, you know, not falling over dead. Also, the Families who said he "died doing what he loves". What, gasping for oxygen while freezing to death? We can accomplish that same feat with some Saran Wrap and a meat locker.
When the line to the top of Everest begins to look like the line to ride the Matterhorn at Disney World, I'm thinking the "personal accomplishment of climbing Everest" part just makes you look like a dumb fucking tourist instead of a world-class daredevil and explorer on a journey of self-discovery. Surely you can spend that $11k on something useful like ensuring the elephants in Africa are killed of or something? Not to mention that bodies aren't brought back down the mountain, IIRC. So yeah, your loved one "died doing what he loved" and now he's going to stay right where he died, a corpsecicle being used as a trail marker for all the other idiots lining up to say they summited Everest.
And in a few thousand years when the next wave of human evolution archaeologists are digging around and finding these preserved corpses, they will be in pure wonderment of how an ancient human tribe could have lived up there - given all the bodies piling up. If I ever write a book about zombies, it will start with icy corpses coming to life near the summit of Everest and eating the oxygen-starved brains of rich folk. New meaning to Death Zone, haha. That’s what I will call it.
COMMENTS
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cutexbutxpsycho
01:33 Jul 01 2019
It could only be witchcraft!
I always knew Lili was a witch D:
She's too awesome to be human :3
Liliancat
08:51 Jul 01 2019
"Hides behind cute"
Liliancat
08:52 Jul 01 2019
Ive been discovered
Dakotah
15:52 Jul 01 2019
Yelp, Cutie, its withcraft fer sure! I even asked her few days ago about me being stuck at 115.80. She shared with me she been stuck too at her level. Remember that chat, lili??? Then, you do some kind of women power magic and wham! I move up a whole point level!
LORDMOGY
19:34 Jul 01 2019