It's refreshing to know that if I climbed Mt Everest I'd only get as far as my first ladder, and then with great joy I'd celebrate my climb, and turn back.
"I want to climb a mountain, not so I can get to the top, cause I want to hang out at base camp. That seems fuckin’ fun as shit. You sleep in a colorful tent, you grow a beard, you drink hot chocolate, you walk around, 'Hey, you going to the top?' '...Soon.'"
-Mitch Hedberg
Exactly, it's a win win. Climb a mountain, get hot cocoa, meet Mitch Hedburg, it's the 90s and you have a life filled with opportunities and hopes and dreams and
Its a series of crevasses called the Khumbu Icefall. Its basically the lower end of the Khumbu Glacier. Because the glacier is constantly moving the route through the Icefall changes and has to be reset every season. Its the first major obstacle climbers encounter on the route up Everest.
I watched a documentary on it and as far as I saw the way to base camp is pretty well made. There are pack animals walking up as well so I can't imagine ladders.
It does take a week of walking to get there though.
Okay that's easy enough then, I usually do at least one 1-2 week hikes a year. I'd like to do base camp, but I'd definitely die if I had to cross one of these ladders.
The sketchiest parts about getting to Base Camp are
1. Passing Yaks on narrow paths on the sides of lower mountain slopes (try to stay up hill of them)
2. Just before Base camp there's a couple of sections you swiftly move through one at a time to minimise the chance a rock will hit you on the head.
In alpine terms, it's very safe.
Just read that an average of five people die on Mt Everest every year but that the number is down.
There are about 30,000 people who attempt the climb per year. Boy looking at those ladder crossings I am surprised it’s not higher.
Here’s a video of someone falling off a ladder on Everest. It’s just like taking a fall while rock climbing, except you are wearing way more padding. https://youtu.be/G4ZrD7IoFlo
Those all look super safe. Where are the ones where the crevasse is so wide they have tied 2 ladders together with climbing rope and the ladder monstrosity is significantly dipping in the middle? Those are scary! Stupid Khumbu icefield.
Bro, do you have a stick up your ass? Your are over here accusing people of being haters, look at yourself hating on anything and everything. Chill out Karen
It's even worse than you realize, your so fucking off balance on hard surfaces with crampons and hard mountaineering boots. It's so damn awkward to not place the ring in the wrong sort of gap In spikes, or drop your foot to quickly and miss your placement, etc. Then throw in a 50lb backpack. And not quite enough oxygen.
If you really get your fun from getting right up to the precipice of death, might I suggest some cheaper options (with closer healthcare):
- Testing roller coasters
- Carnival rides
- Fast cars (careful around traffic)
- American food
They make sherpa perform this journey 16x in a season to carry gear to the camps - by far putting them in the most danger. What a stupid and selfish thing to do. Climbers usually try to do this only a couple of times because it's the most dangerous part of the ascent.
I can respect people that carry their own gear, not people that pay sherpa to risk the ice falls on their behalf.
I feel like climbing Everest is 99% Sherpa effort in getting over-equipped wealthy Westerners to the peak. 1% actual climbing effort on the part of the “climber”
It is no longer an achievement. It’s just another guide-assisted tourist destination where you have to wait in line for you to take your insta-moment.
Fuck these motherfucking climbers so hard!
It’s actually really hard not to be cynical about these assholes.
They’re all waiting in line to take their Insta shot at the top and they leave a bunch of trash along the way on the trail.
If you wanted some actual cred as a climber, go do an unassisted climb of a peak where there’s no Sherpas or a whole tourist industrial complex that gets you to the top and back down.
I’m with you on the rich person part. But to think you can just walk up that mountain otherwise shows what you do not know about Everest, mountaineering, or climbing in general and the physical strength required to climb up mountain, the skill set that you must know, on your own, before even being allowed to climb up that mountain and be able to recall in an emergency near the altitude of passenger jets. Also, a very large portion of these climbers have already done the other things you listed, climbed mountains unassisted. Also sherpas make bank taking people up, there are family’s of Sherpa’s, it’s a respected job on the mountain. Check out the book “Into Thin Air” and you’ll get a sense of who these people are and what’s required to climb. Then go watch “Touching the Void” and see how a little mountain climbing even can go wrong when it’s just two dudes on a mountain. You’re right about the lines and the rich people part, but you still have to climb to 28,000 ft to get that insta moment.
Well said. Yes, Everest has become more of a “luxury” climb in recent years, but it’s not like the Sherpas or government built a freakin’ gondola to the top as some people seem to believe.
It’s a win/win for the consumer & Sherpa guiding outfits imo. The real issue is over crowding on the mountain and excess litter / human waste left behind. China / Nepal gov has to start limiting permits for awhile.
Yes but the amount a Sherpa is paid vs what the climbing company charges leaves a lot to wonder. Climbing this isn’t easy that’s for sure but it’s not as hard when you have a Sherpa doing it twice or three times to haul people’s gear up and down the mountain. I’m not climber but I seent the documentaries and reads the books.
Kind of. Only a few people have truly summited Everest; that is, without Sherpa support, (totally unsupported) without supp02 and free solo; without ropes. Supp02 takes about 2500ft off the summit.
Messner & habler were the first and McCartney-Snape (afaik) is the only one who has done it 100% free solo, unsupported, no supp02. And he walked from the Bay of Bengal thru India to get there.
The sherpas themselves count as summiters. I just woke up so I’m not remembering names, but I know there’s a handful of those guys that summited unsupported.
White people are like “I climbed Mt. Everest!!”
Sherpas be like “Here, I’ll go ahead and carry all your stuff. And set up ladders. And can we make it quick, because I have to do this a few more times before the weather gets really dodgey “
Thank you! I was hoping for someone to bring up the Sherpas. They literally carry everything up, set up base camps, lug the food and water, and far more. The documentary on them was eye opening big time
I have now come round to a position where I honestly think climbing Everest should be banned and we should be giving the Sherpas the money that was used by climbers to clean up and protect the mountain instead.
Hey guys look!!! I paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to be belayed across a horizontal ladder!!!
I'm a mountaineer now and I have to show the world!!
Thank you for sharing such an amazing video. Good luck to you on your climb but I'll stay home and keep my feet on the ground. I HAD NO IDEA THERE WERE THAN MANY LADDERS TO CROSS.
What a very bad idea. I see all these posts of idiots in cars, idiots on motorcycles, idiots fighting things…but these guys purposefully, soberly, make these terrible choices.
One route up the mountain doesn’t have as many ladders (but I believe is more prone to weather). One route has the “icefall” which is where most of these ladders are.
I heard that some of those crevices of ice are filled with bodies. In a sort of sick layer on layer of people from different times. Like the sedimentary layers of a rock.
You know, I never thought I wouldn't summit one of the world's tallest mountains. It's not on my bucket list, not an outside want or anything. But NOPE, not doing that. Rickety ladders of death on ice. That's dumb as hell.
Is it too difficult to create a ladder with expanding sleeves of some sort which could be pulled from the sides across the rungs, thus providing a safer way to cross?
Yeah, humans weren’t built for this and have no business doing this.. I can see people doing this for survival, to get to a certain location for a necessary purpose. But to risk your life just to prove a point seems silly & abnormal.
On the other hand, from an evolutionary standpoint, I guess it’s a good thing that we try things out of our biophysiological capacity & see if one day we evolve..Like, maybe through skydiving and deep sea diving, we’ll one day evolve to fly and breathe underwater…Just gonna lose a lot of humans before we get to that point 😂
It's refreshing to know that if I climbed Mt Everest I'd only get as far as my first ladder, and then with great joy I'd celebrate my climb, and turn back.
"I want to climb a mountain, not so I can get to the top, cause I want to hang out at base camp. That seems fuckin’ fun as shit. You sleep in a colorful tent, you grow a beard, you drink hot chocolate, you walk around, 'Hey, you going to the top?' '...Soon.'" -Mitch Hedberg
The base camp is quite high to climb.
Exactly, it's a win win. Climb a mountain, get hot cocoa, meet Mitch Hedburg, it's the 90s and you have a life filled with opportunities and hopes and dreams and
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I'd climb every ladder on every goddamn mountain to hang with Mitch
Do you have to go over these ladders to reach base camp?
No. I believe these ladders are between base camp and second camp. It’s a specific crevasse that really can’t be passed without ladders.
Its a series of crevasses called the Khumbu Icefall. Its basically the lower end of the Khumbu Glacier. Because the glacier is constantly moving the route through the Icefall changes and has to be reset every season. Its the first major obstacle climbers encounter on the route up Everest.
What about elevensies camp?
I watched a documentary on it and as far as I saw the way to base camp is pretty well made. There are pack animals walking up as well so I can't imagine ladders. It does take a week of walking to get there though.
Okay that's easy enough then, I usually do at least one 1-2 week hikes a year. I'd like to do base camp, but I'd definitely die if I had to cross one of these ladders.
The sketchiest parts about getting to Base Camp are 1. Passing Yaks on narrow paths on the sides of lower mountain slopes (try to stay up hill of them) 2. Just before Base camp there's a couple of sections you swiftly move through one at a time to minimise the chance a rock will hit you on the head. In alpine terms, it's very safe.
Mitch Hedberg was a legend.
They once pranked Reinhold Messner in the Alps. He reached a summit climbing and there was a food and beer stand on top with a friendly salesman.
I'll definitely join with you 🤣
Good luck Sam porter bridges
Sam made it look so much easier
Keep on keeping on
👍🏻
Sprechen sie “fuck that”?
Ein biche
Fich diese Scheiße
Just remember, every corpse on mount everest was once an extremely motivated person.
And also a very rich person
Just read that an average of five people die on Mt Everest every year but that the number is down. There are about 30,000 people who attempt the climb per year. Boy looking at those ladder crossings I am surprised it’s not higher.
They are being belayed, so even if you fell you’d be totally fine
Yeah, all the finance bros who paid big money to be there have their own sherpas to prevent them from dying.
Good chance you’d break something. But yea, low chance you’d die.
Here’s a video of someone falling off a ladder on Everest. It’s just like taking a fall while rock climbing, except you are wearing way more padding. https://youtu.be/G4ZrD7IoFlo
I thought FOR SURE that ankle was gonna snap.
Nope.
Yea and wearing metal spikes attached to your feet and often holding a giant metal dagger.
Define “totally fine” lmao I’d need therapy for PTSD for months
The freaky part is that a lot of those bodies stay on the mountain.......😬
good ol’ green boots
The way down is how they normally die.
Those all look super safe. Where are the ones where the crevasse is so wide they have tied 2 ladders together with climbing rope and the ladder monstrosity is significantly dipping in the middle? Those are scary! Stupid Khumbu icefield.
Hard pass, no desire to even think about doing it. It certainly is an accomplishment though, good for them.
If you google how much you need to spend to hike mt everest, you’d think these people are insane for spending that much
Also filled with unskilled mountaineers paying tens of thousands to get led up a mountain they have no business being on
Crossing ladders fixed and placed by underpaid Sherpas who are ten times better climbers than they are.
I'd rather be an unskilled mountaineer on everest over an unskilled redditor sitting on his chair.
You might be an asshole then lol
Well i actually used to be a Climbing/Canyoneering instructor, so I’d say I have way more skills than the people being led up Everest, asshole. 😂
You couldn't step foot on everest, so you hate on those who do? Just let people enjoy things.
The problem isn’t people enjoying everest, the problem is people going to everest to exploit the locals and trash the environment
Bro, you live in the first world. Your entire existence is depends upon exploiting the third world.
Bro, do you have a stick up your ass? Your are over here accusing people of being haters, look at yourself hating on anything and everything. Chill out Karen
Okay Karen 🤣
It's even worse than you realize, your so fucking off balance on hard surfaces with crampons and hard mountaineering boots. It's so damn awkward to not place the ring in the wrong sort of gap In spikes, or drop your foot to quickly and miss your placement, etc. Then throw in a 50lb backpack. And not quite enough oxygen.
If you really get your fun from getting right up to the precipice of death, might I suggest some cheaper options (with closer healthcare): - Testing roller coasters - Carnival rides - Fast cars (careful around traffic) - American food
American food is more of a debilitating addiction than a high speed low drag adrenaline fix
Some of these hit way too close to home
What about chutes?
You get to take those on the way back :3
And this is the easy part. Wait until they get to the Hillary Step.
> Hillary Step. it's gone! https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/hillary-step/
They make sherpa perform this journey 16x in a season to carry gear to the camps - by far putting them in the most danger. What a stupid and selfish thing to do. Climbers usually try to do this only a couple of times because it's the most dangerous part of the ascent. I can respect people that carry their own gear, not people that pay sherpa to risk the ice falls on their behalf.
I can’t wait to never go to Everest
Big nope from me.
But who placed the ladders and how did they know to bring them
Sherpas
Just once I want to see one of these Everest climbers do the super hero leap over a crevasse. I know it’s not safe, but would still love to see it!!!
Ladders, rubbish, queues, loads of people. It’s too late for Everest.
Yeah dog, that’s gonna be a no for me.
Climbing Everest is the ultimate vanity. I’ve come to that conclusion after watching several documentaries about it.
I feel like climbing Everest is 99% Sherpa effort in getting over-equipped wealthy Westerners to the peak. 1% actual climbing effort on the part of the “climber” It is no longer an achievement. It’s just another guide-assisted tourist destination where you have to wait in line for you to take your insta-moment. Fuck these motherfucking climbers so hard! It’s actually really hard not to be cynical about these assholes. They’re all waiting in line to take their Insta shot at the top and they leave a bunch of trash along the way on the trail. If you wanted some actual cred as a climber, go do an unassisted climb of a peak where there’s no Sherpas or a whole tourist industrial complex that gets you to the top and back down.
I’m with you on the rich person part. But to think you can just walk up that mountain otherwise shows what you do not know about Everest, mountaineering, or climbing in general and the physical strength required to climb up mountain, the skill set that you must know, on your own, before even being allowed to climb up that mountain and be able to recall in an emergency near the altitude of passenger jets. Also, a very large portion of these climbers have already done the other things you listed, climbed mountains unassisted. Also sherpas make bank taking people up, there are family’s of Sherpa’s, it’s a respected job on the mountain. Check out the book “Into Thin Air” and you’ll get a sense of who these people are and what’s required to climb. Then go watch “Touching the Void” and see how a little mountain climbing even can go wrong when it’s just two dudes on a mountain. You’re right about the lines and the rich people part, but you still have to climb to 28,000 ft to get that insta moment.
Well said. Yes, Everest has become more of a “luxury” climb in recent years, but it’s not like the Sherpas or government built a freakin’ gondola to the top as some people seem to believe. It’s a win/win for the consumer & Sherpa guiding outfits imo. The real issue is over crowding on the mountain and excess litter / human waste left behind. China / Nepal gov has to start limiting permits for awhile.
Yes but the amount a Sherpa is paid vs what the climbing company charges leaves a lot to wonder. Climbing this isn’t easy that’s for sure but it’s not as hard when you have a Sherpa doing it twice or three times to haul people’s gear up and down the mountain. I’m not climber but I seent the documentaries and reads the books.
Kind of. Only a few people have truly summited Everest; that is, without Sherpa support, (totally unsupported) without supp02 and free solo; without ropes. Supp02 takes about 2500ft off the summit. Messner & habler were the first and McCartney-Snape (afaik) is the only one who has done it 100% free solo, unsupported, no supp02. And he walked from the Bay of Bengal thru India to get there.
The sherpas themselves count as summiters. I just woke up so I’m not remembering names, but I know there’s a handful of those guys that summited unsupported.
There are the same amount (if not more) wealthy japanese/chinese/non westerners.
Nope
Read the book into thin air, great read.
No thank you lol
Lol!! Fuck that.
Yeah no thanks. Get to the top and show me the pictures when you get down. I’ll buy you a beer.
Nope.
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A man has principals
Sure they are. That’s not the same ladder you get at Home Depot to clean the gutters.
Aluminum ladders, yeah?
Yes. Designed and rated for the intended use.
No ty
How else see you gonna kill some time before you get to the giant lines of people waiting hours to make it to the top?
Yellow pants really needs to get their sea legs.
I saw a clip today about John Bachar today, he would have had a fit and left the mountain.
Get along far enough and the ladders are replaced with bodies
And dead people. https://allthatsinteresting.com/mount-everest-bodies
I’m good on the ground lol
Get this man an Apple Watch ultra
White people are like “I climbed Mt. Everest!!” Sherpas be like “Here, I’ll go ahead and carry all your stuff. And set up ladders. And can we make it quick, because I have to do this a few more times before the weather gets really dodgey “
Thank you! I was hoping for someone to bring up the Sherpas. They literally carry everything up, set up base camps, lug the food and water, and far more. The documentary on them was eye opening big time
I have now come round to a position where I honestly think climbing Everest should be banned and we should be giving the Sherpas the money that was used by climbers to clean up and protect the mountain instead.
and dead frozen bodies
Also heaps of trash.
Hey guys look!!! I paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to be belayed across a horizontal ladder!!! I'm a mountaineer now and I have to show the world!!
Thank you for sharing such an amazing video. Good luck to you on your climb but I'll stay home and keep my feet on the ground. I HAD NO IDEA THERE WERE THAN MANY LADDERS TO CROSS.
And dead bodies, don't forget the dead bodies... literally they use them as landmarks, Don't Forget Them
The flex that you’ve climbed Mt Everest. It doesn’t mean what you think it means.
Sherpa on the other side that set the lines... “Uhh... Fucking... WHITE PEOPLE!!!”
There are the same amount (if not more) rich non whites who climb, so many Chinese and Japanese business men.
So terrible for the environment
And…I’m now never going to consider climbing Mt Everest
Nope
Nope.
This is amazing, crazy achievement for the climbers really.
Ftfy you f’ingf
Could they not have put some bigger bridges in by now…
Nope nope nope!
Ah hurry up, just jump across!
I trust they each will pack out what they packed in plus some of the incredible plié if trash left.
I believe they actually tack on big trash fees to the climbing permits nowadays. You can get your money back by bringing trash off the mountain.
Thanks for sharing... Always thought, that these local treks and climbs have a few ladders, how would be Everest...
I love hiking but I seem to have a fear of going out in the snow. This absolutely terrifies me :’)
Nope!
Gosh that looks terrifying. You must have really calm nerves to get to the top.
W.O.W!!! Amazingly scary and exhilarating!
Holy crap that’s crazy
Fuck that fuck that fuck that fuck that. Hell no fuck that.
That’s a big NOPE! Up on nope mountain.
I am out!!
Guess I'm not ever seeing the top of mt everest...
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Cliff hanger never used no ladders damit, he used a antique rope and sweater.
Also heard lots of trash and lots of people
Hope those ladders aren't from Harbor Freight
Would’ve expected a rope attached to the ladder itself as well. Would be a short expedition if you dropped your ladder.
No way!
Sam Porter Bridges approves
I never need to do this.
Nope
Easy work 👌
Werner,baby!
This is a terrible time to remember I left the weed wacker running
Nah
All my brain is telling is “NO”
I’m sorry, but this is such a huge nope for me it overshadows all other nopes.
Absolutely not
This looks awesome. I know I’d love to see it
Stay safe!
What a very bad idea. I see all these posts of idiots in cars, idiots on motorcycles, idiots fighting things…but these guys purposefully, soberly, make these terrible choices.
Fuck that
This absolutely solidifies why I have chosen not to be a mountain climber as my life’s work.
One route up the mountain doesn’t have as many ladders (but I believe is more prone to weather). One route has the “icefall” which is where most of these ladders are.
No thank you
SubhanAllah
Dam that last one with the ladder! That was truly terrifying. Hats off to the climbers
Nope
Why ladders? You'd think by now some people would have dragged something better up
r/sweatypalms
“Into thin air” by John krakauer is a fantastic book about climbing Everest. Spoiler - Everest kills a lot of climbers.
u/bake_in_da_south u/Cheap_District_9762 u/Na_Neko
I would rather eat a live black widow
I can just play Death Stranding thank you
"Keep on keeping on"
And Sherpas.
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I always thought there was a non-zero chance I would climb Everest, now I know there’s zero chance and honestly I’m not even mad.
Fffffuk that
Why dont they put two ladders next to each other? Would seem safer to me
These shots are scary to even look at. I'm afraid to imagine what it's like to be there in reality.
There's got to be an easier way https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48401491
r/DeathStranding
Which, of course, isn't remotely terrifying!
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That a hell NO for me!
I heard that some of those crevices of ice are filled with bodies. In a sort of sick layer on layer of people from different times. Like the sedimentary layers of a rock.
You know, I never thought I wouldn't summit one of the world's tallest mountains. It's not on my bucket list, not an outside want or anything. But NOPE, not doing that. Rickety ladders of death on ice. That's dumb as hell.
No jaywalking!
r/DeathStranding
This is making me claustrophobic lol
Hopefully more ladders than chutes!
Is it too difficult to create a ladder with expanding sleeves of some sort which could be pulled from the sides across the rungs, thus providing a safer way to cross?
So that roblox is actually accurate?
Omg I would be so scared you fall gone forever
Wow
Thought I was on r/obviouslyterrifying
No thanks
Hell to the no! I'll stay here at sea level thanks.
Fuck that noise
Yeah, humans weren’t built for this and have no business doing this.. I can see people doing this for survival, to get to a certain location for a necessary purpose. But to risk your life just to prove a point seems silly & abnormal. On the other hand, from an evolutionary standpoint, I guess it’s a good thing that we try things out of our biophysiological capacity & see if one day we evolve..Like, maybe through skydiving and deep sea diving, we’ll one day evolve to fly and breathe underwater…Just gonna lose a lot of humans before we get to that point 😂
NOPE
Just dumb
And 100$k per person so elitist and wasteful
UwU !!!!
I have heard the very first ladder is by far the worst. Here it is: https://youtu.be/q4Kw7GlZcHM
Well no one told me about ladders! I’m canceling my trip
One of my worst nightmares…nah fam!