For a glorious moment I thought it was Blizzard entertainment.
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Man, first Overwatch 2 and now this.
Amazing that there are even 1000 people climbing it at the same time. I shudder to think what the once pristine mountainside used to look like vs now.
It looks like a garbage trail littered with corpses. https://allthatsinteresting.com/mount-everest-bodies
The world’s largest monument to vanity.
Better living through technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Delsalle
Didier Delsalle (born May 6, 1957, in Aix-en-Provence, France) is a former fighter pilot and helicopter test pilot. On May 14, 2005, he became the first (and only) person to land a helicopter, the Eurocopter AS350 Squirrel, on the 8,848 m (29,030 ft) summit of Mount Everest.[1]
Future archeologists will welcome our preserved samples of DNA the same way we did Ötzi the Iceman.
Watched 14 Peaks last week and when they got to Mount Everest, there was a literal line of like 100+ people queued all the way up to the top of the mountain.
A lot are trekkers rather than climbers if that helps. Their environmental footprint is much smaller.
Is there anything these assholes wont fuckup? I'm here waiting for Warcraft 4 and Starcraft:Ghost, and all Blizzard can do is harrass their female employees and strand mountain climbers. wtfman
I'm glad I'm not the only one to first think it was the company, not the weather event lol
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Hahaha, that was my first thought as well, until I remembered blizzards are a weather phenomema.
I'm not sure this is related to to the story. If you read the article, One thousand climbers shared a milkshake from dairy Queen and couldn't continue due to a food coma.
Wtf are 1000 climbers doing on Mt Everest.
What the fuck is one climber doing on Mt. Everest?
Your chances of dying are much higher than making it to the summit. It's only a mountain; what's the big deal anyway? There are much safer ways to get exercise and fulfillment; stay on level ground and live.
From wikipedia, ~13,000 people have summitted. From wikipedia, ~ 400 people have died on everest. What's this about your chances?
Have you heard of "selection bias"?
Why yeeeeesssssss, I haaaaaaaave. Remind me how that matters at all, considering we are talking about the specific selection that is being made? Here, since I was already using wikipedia as a source:
Selection bias is the bias introduced by the selection of individuals, groups, or data for analysis in such a way that the association between exposure and outcome among those selected for analysis differs from the association among those eligible`
Note that selection bias is when you are sampling. We're not talking about a sample here, we're talking about the entire population. In statistics, we call that a parameter. It's generally rare that you can accurately determine a parameter, but since the amount of people who have tried to summit everest is so small, and records have been pretty good (aye, we're certainly missing a few), that 400/13000 number is pretty damn close.
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