# Everest: Just Don't Do It **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397 "2016-05-22T21:31:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 60
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1182 "2026-05-20T15:34:32Z")
Wicked thin ayah. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1183 "2026-05-20T19:51:02Z")
Shit I’m gonna have to check that out when I’m next back there! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1184 "2026-05-20T19:57:27Z")
Or you could buy this shirt: [Mount Everest Summit Club I Climbed Mount Everest T-Shirt - Seseable](https://seseable.com/products/mount-everest-summit-club-or-climbed-t-shirt-b1PyvW5DfPKU?msclkid=a94db07d2b7a1af31230da733acce4b9&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Seseable_US_Medium&utm_term=4586887641042059&utm_content=Ad%20group%20%231) So many people have done it, no one would know the difference. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1185 "2026-05-21T14:19:24Z")
The uniqueness of summiting Everest continues to elicit awe. > **[A record 274 climbers scale Mount Everest in a single day](https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/record-274-climbers-scale-mount-everest-single-day-133176848)** > > Officials say hundreds of climbers scaled Mount Everest in a single day, setting a new record with 274 successful ascents ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1186 "2026-05-21T15:00:35Z")
It’s hardly unique if 274 people do it in a day ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1187 "2026-05-21T15:45:13Z")
And friends they may think it’s a movement. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1188 "2026-05-21T16:05:24Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > It’s hardly unique if 274 people do it in a day How many people do you know who have done it? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1189 "2026-05-21T18:01:40Z")
274 people to the summit??!! That sounds like a lot, and major crowds up high on the mountain! If most (all?) came from the South Col route instead of from the north, that makes for a major traffic jam going that way. They must’ve had an efficient method of getting people through the Hillary Step, in both directions. 274, wow. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1190 "2026-05-21T23:38:07Z")
My comment was about crowding the trail to the summit from Camp IV, not about the uniqueness of summiting Everest — which is definitely a unique achievement. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1191 "2026-05-21T23:41:09Z")
"Unique’ is doing some heavy lifting there. How about “uncommon”? Now, climbing Mt. Agamenticus without Sherpa porters or supplemental oxygen as I did - _that’s_ unique. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1192 "2026-05-22T00:24:55Z")
Climbing Mt A _with_ Sherpa porters and supplemental oxygen – _that_ would be unique. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1193 "2026-05-22T05:31:05Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Now, climbing Mt. Agamenticus without Sherpa porters or supplemental oxygen as I did - _that’s_ unique. Nice. I did Half Dome. That’s my best hike / climb. And I’ve got a really bad fear of heights so those cables were a challenge for me. ---
**Author:** ![Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/section_maker_jupe/32/1424_2.png) [@Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Section_Maker_Jupe)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1194 "2026-05-22T13:03:58Z")
I love these Everest Mt climbing threads! I did most of my Sierra hikes on the John Muir section, always like to rock scramble to close peaks or notches so see over the other side. Just amazing scenery, a few hours drive (4 1/2) from my home at the coast. The Half Dome cable walk just gives me the heeby jeebys(technical term)…hanging on to rocks is one thing, slender cables in the hot sun, sweating? I’m not really “afraid” of heights, but suspect I have some form of vertigo. I couldn’t walk near the edge of Mt Langley when I climbed it, made me woozy and sick feeling… (somewhat easy climb/scramble up) I had to slide on my stomach to look over. Its close to a 1000ft drop on that one face. (I haven’t watched Meru yet, but thanks for the link above) Free Solo is also on my list. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1195 "2026-05-22T13:08:36Z")
> [@Eureka](#): > > Jon Krakauer regretted climbing Everest, at least in part because of the people who died on his trip(less guilt and more trauma and grief), and because he feels like the article and then book he wrote _Into Thin Air_ helped popularize and sensationalize climbing Everest. To be fair, it was a compelling read. He wrote well of the disaster (I know certain other climbers have minor quibles). It did not encourage me into sensationalizing Everest. My native Cape Town (Table Mountain) has (apparently, and local legend) a higher raw annual death rate, although that is balanced by the fact that Everest is very access limited, whereas any idiot with an Instagram account and inappropriate equipment can hike routes on Table Mountain, that they are very much unguided by logic, and unguided by actual guides. And that mountain is only 1085m above sea level. Everest is (ahem) a whole different level. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1196 "2026-05-22T13:17:40Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And friends they may think it’s a movement. And that’s what it is, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, and all you got to do to join is climb Mount Everest the next time a sudden storm or even a stiff breeze comes around. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1197 "2026-05-22T14:16:11Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > whereas any idiot with an Instagram account and inappropriate equipment can hike routes on Table Mountain, that they are very much unguided by actual guides. “Here, hold my beer, watch this…” — used to be limited to only those nearby and actually there. Now with social media, resultant stupidities can go viral and pretty soon everybody knows how stupid you are. Or were. > [@Section\_Maker\_Jupe](#): > > (I haven’t watched Meru yet, but thanks for the link above) Free Solo is also on my list. I haven’t watched Meru either, and yes thank you for the link above, but I have seen Free Solo and you are certain to like it. Added — here’s the YouTube link for Meru: ➜ [https://youtu.be/UNAw6vL7mJM](https://youtu.be/UNAw6vL7mJM) ■ ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1198 "2026-05-22T14:19:18Z")
Meanwhile, back on Everest… > **[Two Indian climbers die on Everest; Third being rescued from South Col](https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/two-indian-climbers-die-on-everest-third-being-rescued-from-south-col)** > > Two Indian climbers have died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest, bringing the season's death toll on the world's highest peak to five. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1199 "2026-05-22T14:25:09Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Added — here’s the YouTube link for Meru: > ➜ [https://youtu.be/UNAw6vL7mJM](https://youtu.be/UNAw6vL7mJM) Got a “video unavailable” message. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1200 "2026-05-22T14:27:06Z")
Sorry, it works for me so maybe it’s how my account is set up. It should be easily findable in YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397/1201 "2026-05-22T14:35:06Z")
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