The Deuce: you're thinking of the lesser known film Oonta Goota Solo

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
- I thoroughly enjoyed watching that. - EffinIllini Yesterday, 11:12:12
- I didn't know Han was in jail!?* - DanSaint January 28, 2026, 15:42:26
  - That's how I keep reading this...& - KingTalkyTiki Yesterday, 12:42:41
    - you're thinking of the lesser known film Oonta Goota Solo - IlliniSax05 Yesterday, 12:45:36
- I actively dislike him. * - illini January 28, 2026, 13:46:16
  - He doesn't seem like a great person - Sounder January 28, 2026, 13:50:40
    - are you implying he's a bad person? - IlliniSax05 January 28, 2026, 14:00:20
      - I think there is an extreme selfishness in being so singularly focused - Sounder January 28, 2026, 14:11:27
        
        meh, his wife knew who he was/what he did when they got together - IlliniSax05 January 28, 2026, 14:19:10
        
        1000% - in Free Solo she is only his girlfriend * - aimlessillini January 28, 2026, 15:43:14
        
        I believe she met him at a signing event for his climbing book* - gvibes Yesterday, 12:44:37
        
        I just think it's the way he's wired - aimlessillini January 28, 2026, 14:16:14
        
        There is no question this is the way he's wired* - Sounder January 28, 2026, 15:50:17
        
        The rest of us don't get a pass for our fucked up wiring. - uofi1998 January 28, 2026, 15:51:26
        
        Were he to die doing this - Sounder January 28, 2026, 15:55:50
        
        Abso fucking lutely. - uofi1998 January 28, 2026, 15:58:48
It’s not even the tallest mountain in the world - timmer January 28, 2026, 13:29:21
- Chimborazo is the one in Ecuador. It's farthest from the center of the earth - VIV Yesterday, 11:09:05
You couldn't pay me tens of thousands of dollars to do it.* - KingTalkyTiki January 28, 2026, 12:08:22
- same. Just doesn't interest me at all* - OrangeSox January 28, 2026, 13:50:20
  - I think you either get it or you don't - Sounder January 28, 2026, 13:51:10
mountaineering has always fascinated me, everest and k2 particularly - VIV January 28, 2026, 10:14:48
- Reinhold Messner's career and achievements are absolutely mind boggling* - Blazer January 28, 2026, 15:34:52
  - he's a legend. as is Nirmal Purja.* - VIV Yesterday, 11:06:06
  - I read his biography - Sammich January 28, 2026, 15:40:39
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
- And the pictures of the basecamp trash piles always blow my mind* - EffinIllini January 28, 2026, 11:25:04
People are paying for a death-defying adventure they can brag about. - doubledown January 28, 2026, 7:19:56
- there's no other path from that side - VIV January 28, 2026, 10:04:37
- They're gonna die anyways so does it matter?* - KCWildcat January 28, 2026, 8:06:36

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