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fucking idiots

In fairness, these climbers spend tens of thousands to climb Everest, they spend a month or more getting up to the base camps and then can be stuck at the last base camp or two while they wait for the weather. They'll get a perhaps day or two window to go up, they have to go for it.

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In fairness, these climbers spend tens of thousands to climb Everest, they spend a month or more getting up to the base camps and then can be stuck at the last base camp or two while they wait for the weather. They'll get a perhaps day or two window to go up, they have to go for it.

Correct. If you read Jon Krakauer’s excellent book “Into Thin Air” it details a famous ill fated climb led by experienced mountaineers that led to multiple deaths, including the expedition leaders.

 

Even if you’ve reached the summit in the past every trip is different and one small lapse in judgement can easily be fatal.

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