mountaineering has always fascinated me, everest and k2 particularly
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covered a bit below, but only about 1/3rd of everest is in nepal, the rest is in tibet.
the only path up on the nepal side is via traversing a glacier (khumbu icefall) in a steep V-shaped valley. unfortunately, with it being a glacier, it has crevasses and it moves. there's no way to fix permanent routes or go around it
but once you get past it, this is the "easy" side to climb.
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 It’s kind of crazy to me that hundreds of people pay tens of thousands of dollars to climb Everest… - DT January 28, 2026, 6:52:09
- I"m watching Free Solo - Sounder January 28, 2026, 13:33:22
- It’s not even the tallest mountain in the world - timmer January 28, 2026, 13:29:21
- You couldn't pay me tens of thousands of dollars to do it.* - KingTalkyTiki January 28, 2026, 12:08:22
- mountaineering has always fascinated me, everest and k2 particularly - VIV January 28, 2026, 10:14:48
- Your subject line alone covers it for me* - PapaDels January 28, 2026, 9:03:54
- I'm less interested in the placement on the other side and more interested in how - Taz January 28, 2026, 8:49:40
- Always blows my mind that people spend at least 4 WEEKS at base camp* - Carl Spackler January 28, 2026, 8:01:34
- People are paying for a death-defying adventure they can brag about. - doubledown January 28, 2026, 7:19:56
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