There was a two hour queue to climb past the bottleneck at K2 .What's the fuckin point of climbing mountains, even supposedly the most hardest one if there's gonna be lines full of tourists like a Disneyland ride?
idiots climbing short cold mountains instead of Mauna Kea, the worlds tallest mountain, easy to get to and in a nice climate
>>216683Bad luck
>>216683The climbing season is incredibly short to begin with and inclement weather can make it even shorter.If there's two or three teams on the mountain and the weather is nice, the expedition leaders will space out the summit assaults (which can take days) to avoid traffic.If there's an incoming storm, though, it's either go now or go home and try again next year, spending tens of thousands more dollars.To call them just a bunch of tourists is a little disingenuous. They're still experienced climbers. It's not like they're just on an easy hike while everyone around them is killing themselves.
>>216683>>217063not k2 BUT the Everest has become -in some tourism packs- indeed a vanity ride for rich old men. I think the Moon youtube dug up a website which was "sherpas will carry ALL your stuff + your oxygen, luxury rest tents, etc". Not everyone is like that but..the trend is a thing.>also calling the porters "sherpas" is cringe, sherpa is an ethnicity. Imagine calling the tennis ball boys "the caucasians"
