Everest (2015)

[ZackyDog]

This movie is now on HBO. I put it on in the background while I was internet surfing.

Maybe I don't have the right attitude but...it looked like miserable experience. I saw people shivering, getting frost-bitten, having trouble breathing (e.g. fighting for their lives), and struggling to scale the world's highest peak (29,029 feet). I suppose it would be more exhilarating if you could breathe on your own up there, without the need for an oxygen tank(s)? I guess people like the view up there, and the death-defying challenge? Incidentally, 22 people died last year trying to climb it. I read that the dead bodies are actually used as landmarks.

Conversely, maybe these mountain climbers find that playing Gretsch guitars, is not the best use of one's recreational time?

 

[thunder58]

are you out of your mind ?........not with that ladder ......lol

 

[Marten Richens]

This is one of my (many) bugbears. I get really p15sed off when people go off and do 'extreme' sports and think they are better than they actually are Then when they inevtiably get into trouble, the emergency services have to risk their lives bailing them out. I think there should be some sort of waiver; if you go out in a hurricane in a 2 man dinghy, it's your own stupid fault!

And if mountian climbers do think playing a Gretsch is not the best use of one's time, then surely that is testament to their lack of intellegence?

 

[ZackyDog]

Then when they inevtiably get into trouble, the emergency services have to risk their lives bailing them out

That's not fair to emergency services. Nor is it fair to burden on your fellow climbers who need all of their strength to get themselves back to safety.

 

[audept]

I get altitude sickness, and it's not pleasant. I nearly had a heart attack on a mountain in Bhutan a few years back. It was barely 4,000 metres (just over 13,000 ft). It changed my mind about visiting Lhasa in Tibet. I need oxygen.

 

[wabash slim]

Well, they climb the mountain 'because it's there". I've never been impressed with "stunts". You get yourself into trouble, then get yourself out. Endangering yourself is one thing; putting others in harm's way is just selfish and ignorant.

"Hold my beer and watch this!"

 

[ampe]

I saw that movie in the theaters when it just came out, it was strange because before the break it was like a happy movie, and after the break the **** hit the fan real bad real fast and people started dying out of nowhere.
I get how people want to push themselves to the limit, but that was clearly way over.

 

[ZackyDog]

Almost 5 1/2 miles above sea level (!)

 

[Lucydix]

I read the book this was based on. The actual story is even more depressing. For the life of me, I cant figure out why people do this. On the way up, they have to pass the frozen bodies of those who didnt make it. You would think that would be the "light bulb" moment to not go further! The mountain will always win.

 

[ZackyDog]

Human beings simply aren't built to function at the cruising altitude of a 747.

Incidentally last year was a record for Mt. Everest: 22 deaths.

 

[Henry]

Sounds miserable.

But the part that amuses me is that for us outsiders, this is a BIG DEAL. Yet the big deal is only made possible by the Sherpas who carry all the tourist's gear - over and over again as a job, without the fancy technical clothes and equipment.

 

[ZackyDog]

Sounds miserable.

But the part that amuses me is that for us outsiders, this is a BIG DEAL. Yet the big deal is only made possible by the Sherpas who carry all the tourist's gear - over and over again as a job, without the fancy technical clothes and equipment.

I had to consult Wikipedia.

 

[ZackyDog]

This 48 year-old CT woman has climbed it 10 times(!)

Connecticut Mother-Daughter Duo Talk About Reaching Mount Everest's Summit

A Connecticut mother-daughter duo who reached the summit of Mount Everest spoke with NBC Connecticut about their experience. Lhakpa Sherpa reached the 29,032-foot summit for a 10th time last week. “I like the mountain, I go up the mountain. The mountain is my best friend,” Sherpa said. When she...

www.nbcconnecticut.com

 

[Henry]

Imo if you're not carrying all your own gear, you're just riding up the mountain.

 

[juks]

If you want to see amazing crazy story of Mt Everest tragedy, check out Into the void. Will to live of the one guy was beyond unbelievable.

Buddy of mine used to do hard core mountain climbing after he graduated. He told me that more than 50% of the climbers he knew had died. Crazy stuff.

 

[ForTheLoveOfIvy]

With a couple of exceptions I found it hard to find much sympathy for most of the characters in this movie.

 

[calebaaron666]

I saw this in the theater, but only cuz the ol’ lady thought it make for a fun IMAX 3D experience, and it did. It had some pretty dazzling visuals, but the drama seemed silly to me, since, ya know, no one was forcing those lunatics to do what they're doing.
It’s definitely not a movie I’d ever watch again. Not really my type of cinema.

I keep my hiking to the white mountains in NH. 4000 footers ain’t gonna kill ya! However, I did get caught in a sudden and nasty snow storm on Mount Washington in August. It was my first “white out”.
That was memorable.

 

[jfassett]

As a professional climbing guide for over 20 years…I too don’t get the desire, ha!

 

[Back in Black]

Well, they climb the mountain 'because it's there". I've never been impressed with "stunts". You get yourself into trouble, then get yourself out. Endangering yourself is one thing; putting others in harm's way is just selfish and ignorant.

"Hold my beer and watch this!"

Slim,

I've been tracking annual climbs for years.

The increasingly higher annual death tolls have a lot to do with the mountain attempting to be tackled by less and less experienced climbers.

Brokers are now hiring ''experienced'' guides to try and get the ''unknowing'' to the summit, and when the guides can't make it, what chance to the inexperienced climbers have.

Like taking a person who has never been in the water as a diver, down to the Andrea Doria.

They think their money will keep them safe.

The mountain does not know dollar buying power.

If you want to walk through a cemetery in the snow, there are a lot easier ways to do it.

Best,

BIB.

 

[ZackyDog]

Crazy to me, and way too many people.