• grahamsz@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the terminology - that makes it easier!

    Only very few people have accomplished climbing one of the 14 peaks “alpine style”.

    I’m quite ok with that.

    If the rockies were 28k instead of 14k then I still don’t think there’d be a situation where we hire poor villagers from the outskirts of Denver to put their lives on the line. I really believe the high peaks are summited expedition-style because the poverty makes that practical, which in turn allows many more people to reach the top

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      1 year ago

      I’m quite ok with that.

      But climbing with an expedition is much more safe. There is nothing wrong with that inherently.

      The real porblem starts when mountaineering just becomes a sick kind of tourism. Where people that are totally unprepared hire companies that will figurativly just carry you up a mountain like everest. I mean idiots like this..

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        1 year ago

        I think I take more exception with the uneven make-up of the expedition team. If 4 americans want to form a expedition to summit K2 then I applaud that, all of them are committed to what they are doing and are choosing to take an extreme risk with no coercion. But when half the team makers are living in literal poverty and are only choosing to take the risk because they have few other options, that seems kinda messed up.

      • blargh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        That woman… how stubborn can you be?

        How can you not realize the insanity of continuing when what takes others 20 minutes takes you 6 hours.

        Could it have been some form of suicide?