Beautifully shot movie, I’d really recommend it. I knew the whole Sherpa to rich western climber thing was messed up, but this movie puts the whole capitalist disregard for human workers lives into fairly sharp relief. Maybe a bit on the nose with that one guy talking about “the Sherpa’s owner”.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I love hiking, genuinely think it's one of the best hobbies a someone can pick up, and look at this dummy thicc mountain every day with a now pathological fixation to climb it. Totally get that psychic drive. If someone told me they had climbed Everest, I have less respect for them by knowing that. They did the British Raj to waltz up a shit and plastic-covered tourist attraction with a bunch of cardiologists who could pay $30k and their colonial servants who do all of the work and risk their lives on multiple trips to enable that bourgeois fuck's vanity trip. You hike up Long's Peak, it's you and what you can carry on your back versus nature. Climb K2, same thing but yeah sure you can have toxic masculinity you've earned it. Climb Everest and unless you were carrying your own gear you're a piece of shit who should be condemned for it.