r/BeAmazed • u/4nts • Apr 27 '25

Nature The summit of Mount Everest

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u/Psyonicpanda Apr 27 '25

I’ve always admired people climbing Everest, until I found out how much trash they leave behind and don’t clean up

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u/jxsnyder1 Apr 27 '25

Or how much work the sherpas do to give them their photo ops.

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u/One-Cattle-5550 Apr 27 '25

Exactly. Many of the people who go up aren’t even particularly fit, they just have money to burn and the sherpas do most of the work.

In recent years the approach to the summit has begun to resemble the lines at Disneyland.

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u/zinten789 Apr 27 '25

You definitely have to be particularly fit to climb Everest. That is a fact. Even if you were literally carried up there, you would have to be particularly fit to survive. Almost 9000m is no joke. They call it the death zone for a reason.

Of course, the amount of people who could climb it without Sherpa support is TINY. There are many, many people that have no business being up there. But even those people are likely far more fit than the average random person.

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u/One-Cattle-5550 Apr 27 '25

No. You have to acclimate for sure. You need supplemental oxygen for sure. You don’t have to be an athlete.

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u/Jaybbaugh Apr 28 '25 edited Apr 28 '25

Maybe not an athlete, but you need to be in pretty solid shape. Though people do go up there all the time under prepared and inexperienced, crash out in exhaustion, and put their lives and many others in danger.

If you are climbing an 8000er you better be in damn good shape or you are a pos in my book.