Humans are not supposed to be up there. I'm talking about Mount Everest and K 2 -- the highest mountains in the world. Watched 'Everest' and 'The Summit' back-to-back yesterday; the first a movie, the second a documentary. Both show rich people doing insane things and paying the ultimate and almost-ultimate price.
Heck, Sir Edmund Hilary did it in sneakers with an ice pick, but these people have very expensive gear up the ying-yang -- all to no avail in the end.
Surely to God, you'd know disaster lay at the end of such missions. Both movies were exactly the same: people stumbling around in the snow and risking the lives of the poor Sherpa-saps who practically have to carry them up. In both movies, people either die, or lose hands, feet, toes, fingers and noses. For what?! The selfishness is breathtaking. The dead are left, frozen forever while their families mourn back home thinking of them cast in ice for eternity.
Before they venture to disaster, they party hard at base camp-- which seems very bizarre. Throughout the documentary, shots are shown of the dead as they succumb, their birth and death dates printed under their faces. Why would anyone do this? I have to admit we actually know one such fool who will soon go on another trek to Everest. Rich, he will leave to worry his kids and grandkids, but he couldn't give a sh-t. It's all about him.
In the case of K 2, 11 people died on the descent, which is apparently when most disasters happen. To this day, no one -- not even the survivors -- seem to know what happened. I guess that's because when you are that high up, your brain ceases to function. Frankly, the minute they decided to climb, their brains ceased to function.
It's all such narcissistic nonsense.
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