r/interestingasfuck • u/Alarming-Studio-720 • 2h ago

Everest crevasse fall and rescue as Sherpa saves a climber’s life.

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u/Routine_Phase_8980 2h ago

Why you can have perfectly happy family and successful career but decided to risk your life by doing stuff like this and cave diving really puzzle me

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u/DopamineQuest 2h ago edited 2h ago

They do it to say "I climbed Mount Everest" to their friends, and post on social media, without mentioning that you were in a single file line of hundreds to thousands, being carried up the Mountain by sherpas.

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u/FlyingNDreams 2h ago

My brag right now "I'm surviving this timely line." 💪🏼... So far.

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u/pichael289 31m ago

And also you pissed and shit and left trash all over the mountain that the other kind of Sherpas, (capital S is an ethnic ground, lowercase is a job, they can be both) believe to be a sort of living sleeping godness. It's best not to go at all unless you are a professional climber. Everest is actually fairly easy to climb you just need the endurance, but most of these people don't have that or the low amount of skill required, they just have the money.

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u/ozneoknarf 2h ago

Yall really don’t like hiking huh. I normally try to avoid crowded places but even when I climbed with crowds it was still completely worth it just for the feeling of being at the top. There is just this beauty that you can experience from mountain tops that you can’t from anywhere else in the world. I imagine the highest peak in the world gives the same feeling. 

But yeah I agree the Sherpas carry most of the climbers, most of the climbers are not prepared to climb a mountain like Everest and are only capable too because the Sherpas offer a service not really found anywhere else in the world. 

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u/stoicparallax 1h ago

I don’t think it’s a dislike of hiking. Everest is an odd intersection of hiking, vanity, wealth, and ego. It involves a very real chance of death. Were its name not so prestigious, most of these people wouldn’t risk it.

K2 is the closest peer to Everest. From a climber perspective, it’s known to be the more technical climb, and has less formal support aka sherpas / guides .. it’s arguably the superior accomplishment, for a climber. Only 50 people attempted it in 2025.

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u/ozneoknarf 1h ago

I really disagree people climb it for ego or bragging rights, climbing mountain Everest is like completing the last level of a game for people who are into mountaineering. There are levels that’s are harder but it’s not the last one. Nearly everyone who is in to mountaineering dreams about climbing it. And yeah K2, Annapurna and basically all other 13 8000+ peaks are easier than Mount Everest and many other peaks around the world too. But they aren’t the highest peak on the planet. And obviously due to the lack of infrastructure aren’t as accessible. 

I’ve climbed Aconcagua which is the highest peak on the planet outside of Asia. It’s a very easy mountain. But something about just being at the top of the highest peak in the western hemisphere just gives you this huge sense of euphoria. 

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u/Trashinmyash 1h ago

I really disagree people climb it for ego or bragging rights, climbing mountain Everest is like completing the last level of a game for people who are into mountaineering.

What? You're splitting hairs. Those are the exact same thing. Then you bragged about your own adventure as if it was supposed to mean something.

You know what, just go get an oxygen tank, I dont think you finished recovering from your trip.

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u/ironicaltwist88 34m ago

He's definitely got some issues with that brain of his

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u/ozneoknarf 1h ago

What? There a difference between saying, “I am awesome for doing x” and “doing x made me feel really good” I even said Aconcagua was an easy climb, there’s nothing technical or impressive about the climb apart from having to be slightly on shape and having the minimal idea of what you’re doing. Still climbing it felt like absolute euphoria. 

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u/PolygonAndPixel2 1h ago

But you can just fake the image and watch a documentary. Who is going to second guess this?

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u/Van-garde 2h ago

Hierarchy of needs.

I’m still down here trying to afford housing.

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u/Kreaetor 1h ago

They put it on Linkedin for their career resume.

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u/itsokimalive 2h ago

OR.... they are like my uncle who died raising awareness for Huntington's disease, which took the life of my aunt. Seattle climber dies from fall on Mount Everest | The Seattle Times

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u/CES0108 2h ago edited 2h ago

I feel like 99.9 percent of people on Everest are just rich dickholes, lol. Bless the sherpas for saving the rich sheep.

If you've summited everest, I'm judging you and I'm not a very judgemental person. This isn't the flex people think it is anymore.

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u/MrDannyProvolone 2h ago

I mean I hear ya but let's not pretend Everest is any sort of an easy task. It's still an absolutely incredible challenge to accomplish, Douche bag or not.

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u/jake_burger 1h ago

Yeah I admire the Sherpas for doing it while dragging these liabilities up with them.

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u/Intrepid_Library878 1h ago

not true

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u/Registered_Potato 1h ago

I mean I don't know. It's basically a really cold really shitty out of breath walk for a very long time. It's not really necessary to have technical climbing skills to do this for my understanding. It's not like K2 or something truly fucking challenging

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u/Kriztauf 1h ago

It's still super challenging from an endure standpoint. But you're right that it's basically the just most intense hike you can do, as compared to actual climbing

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u/Registered_Potato 1h ago

It's definitely not the most insane hike you can do and probably not by a long shot to be honest with you. If you do it alone without someone literally carrying your shit and take an alternate route hell yeah you're probably not far off but just because Everest is the tallest doesn't mean there's not like probably 50 other mountains if not more that are harder. In fact there are mountains that still haven't been fucking climbed. I went to school in Montana and took a class called mountains and society and then I also did a NOLS semester and guided trips for a few years. Everest is tough but nowhere near the hardest.

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u/Deadzombii 2h ago

This is a fact..

As long as there sherpas are getting paid handsomely..

But I bet there are these companies who gets the transaction done with tourists and sherpas are paid peanuts

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u/Ubericious 2h ago

10% the other 90% are hard working Sherpas serving the rich cunts

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u/itsokimalive 2h ago

Not everyone is a rich asshole. Ask my uncle who died raising awareness for one of the most debilitating death sentences out there - Huntington's disease. Seattle climber dies from fall on Mount Everest | The Seattle Times

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u/groucho_barks 16m ago

I'm sure your uncle was a good guy and I'm so sorry for your loss.

Can I ask how they paid for the trip? The article says they were hoping to raise $100K for a Huntington's disease charity, but google says it would cost at least that much to do the climb itself.

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u/Unlucky_Milk_4323 7m ago

OK .. dude. Since you posted this multiple times I feel the need for a gentle retort. This can read like "I'm an idiot who died on a rich person's trip to raise awareness for a relatively well known disease on a well known climb." Just sayin'.

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u/bubblesculptor 2h ago

Falling into a crevasse has always been a lingering fear, but I never even considered falling head first into one!

Getting wedged in that upside-down would be like Nutty Putty except colder & brighter.

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u/BackPirateClarkRoom 1h ago

Guy is probably worth 50 million plus and tipped the guy $5000 for saving his life while risking his.

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u/blast-asser 2h ago

"Ya se cayó este pendejo" is what the Sherpas where saying in Sherpanese 😆

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u/Ex-maven 2h ago

And this was within his first hundred yards after leaving the base camp Starbucks.   (jk)

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u/daveSotanas 1h ago

Ya wey!

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u/demomagic 2h ago

Risk reward is a bit skewed with these climbs

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u/ImpossibleJoke7456 1h ago

Just pave a road to the summit at this point.

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u/Irritating_Pedant 1h ago

Everest is littered with bodies and garbage. We should stop climbing it forever.

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u/Akkie09 2h ago

That took a lot of time, considering how carefully they were executing the process explains how soon things could go wrong with just one small mistake.

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u/zante2033 2h ago

Another western tourist putting everyone's life in danger.

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u/MagicNinjaMan 1h ago

Amateur climbers/trekkers so clumsy, Sherpas need to baby sit them and carry their gear for them

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u/Backy22 2h ago

There isn't more specialized gear? I could get that ladder at Home Depot.

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u/aimgorge 2h ago

They use a ton of them, there are a shit load of crevasses that tend to move quite a bit. These ladders are cheap, lightweight and do the job perfectly 

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u/realbobenray 2h ago

The crazy thing is how they lash two or more of them together.

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u/Josueobando 2h ago

He´s sweating cold for sure

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u/champagneformyrealfr 2h ago

the whole thing was terrible, but realizing he was just crossing on a LADDER made it worse. absolutely not.

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u/tristand1ck 1h ago

Shout to the dingus stepping on the rope in crampons 🫪

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u/razvanciuy 33m ago

Nice hole to fail into

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u/Unlucky_Milk_4323 21m ago

At this point Everest is a tourist spot with a chance of death. You have to be a complete moron to research it and decide "that's the trip for me" ..

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u/emmasdad01 2h ago

Check must not have cleared yet

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u/MrP67 2h ago

About 6 people helping him and luckily 1 person held a camera while it was going down.

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u/EncryptedSpace 2h ago

"Sherpa" - no it's just another climber/hiker.

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u/anothergenxkid 1h ago

Man, this couch is comfortable. 

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u/TheOriginal_858-3403 1h ago

"Well done"? No, horribly done, they went ass over tea kettle and almost fell all the way in. Terrible job.