Once more it is proven that money can’t buy you everything. In this case, bragging about reaching the peak of the world.

Well, to be honest, lots of people successfully achieve that very expensive goal, the dead ones are a very tiny minority. So money does buy that almost always.

no, it's "set realistic goals with achievable metrics and reasonable KPI's"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Boots

Koflach could make an ad campaign out of that picture with the slogan "Our boots will outlast You".

You don't necessarily know that. Then again, some of the corpses on Everest might've just gotten real lost.

But do they on average, last longer?

That's the way to "beat" entropy, tread water for as long as possible.

at least on everest, your frozen corpse can be used as a marker in case you get "lost"

If you go you die, if you didn't go you die as well. Might as well cut out the middleman and die right now.

China-Nepal

To be fair if we all unanimously took a break at the same time, that would generate a ton of bad news. The people who own the news don't want everyone to be able to do anything.