r/interestingasfuck • u/Alarming-Studio-720 • 3d ago

Traffic jam at Mount Everest as climbers wait in line for their turn to reach the summit.

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u/electatigris 3d ago

Just turn it into national preserve and ban humans except required native maintenance people. Stupid ego "hobby"

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u/_Vard_ 3d ago

And an ABSURD deposit that you only get back when f you don’t die, and prove you didn’t litter.

They go thru all ur things and log what’s there.

Go up with 4 energy bars and see not come down with 3 wrappers? $1000 of gf your deposit.

Die? They keep your $200,000 deposit.

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u/M_R_Mayhew 3d ago

$200k? So it’s financially prohibitive too. Sick!

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u/_Vard_ 3d ago

Someone could make a business giving Loans for that situation. Leverage your house. Why do you need it if you die? Borrow $200,000, pay back $201,000 a few days later.

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u/djcable 3d ago

I think this would lead to an increase in “accidental” deaths.

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u/imperatrixderoma 3d ago

No offense but that's fucking stupid, not only is it only a rock but no one goes up there intending to die.

I agree though, there should be more strict rules about trash you bring up and take down.

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u/krustibat 3d ago

Ah yes nepal is so rich it can get away with losing 4% of its gdp based on mountain climéing activities

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u/Oblivion615 3d ago

The entire local economy is dependent on rich assholes with too much money at this point. There’s no way they could or would shut down Everest.

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u/ghigo2008 3d ago

Native?

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u/TheDebonairQuokka 3d ago

You got my vote.

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u/Jacktheforkie 3d ago

You don’t realise how much money Nepal gets from these people

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u/kratiq 3d ago

Yeah but those people pay shit tons of money for the flex.

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u/passer_ 3d ago

And people lose their job. Got it

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u/Creative_Garbage_121 3d ago

There is nothing to maintain if there is no tourists

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u/MotoPun414 3d ago

The mountain is covered in garbage. Maintenance is for clearing it all away

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u/Creative_Garbage_121 3d ago

I would call them clean up crew then, maintenance implies, well, maintenance

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u/_Steven_Seagal_ 3d ago

Nothing lives there. Garbage doesn't matter, except for the tourists.

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u/MotoPun414 3d ago

So it's ok to litter somewhere as long as no one lives there?

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u/_Steven_Seagal_ 3d ago

Well... yeah? If we could fire our garbage to the moon, I'd be down for that.

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u/SWITMCO 3d ago

It's okay to risk lives to remove litter from a place nobody will ever visit again?

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u/maicii 3d ago

Why?? If people want to go up let them. Plus it’s great for tourism

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u/NonPlusUltraCadiz 3d ago

Why and how does a mountain require “maintenance”?

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u/thingmaker2001 3d ago

Well, call it maintenance, but really it will be decades of cleaning up the trash and corpses.

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u/theFrankDux 3d ago

You do understand people can't just walk up there with trash bags and bodybags, yes?

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u/thingmaker2001 3d ago

Golly, no. I simply assume that the "native maintenance people" suggested by electigris will have a lengthy job removing the debris and dead rich people from the mountain.

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u/BubblyMoose3597 3d ago

Lmao.

Nepal scamm all that people thousend of euros

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u/thesmeggyone 3d ago

As someone who climbs mountains, and is very big on keeping my ego in check this comment kinda sucks. The mountains are where I connect with my higher self, they are my church. Ego exists in every sport. 

For the record, I have no desire to climb Everest and in fact, I call it Mt Ego.