Requiring lots of experience in order to go beyond the first base camp would likely drastically reduce the number of deaths on the mountain. Will it happen? I am doubtful because it does provide so much money to Nepal and it is how so many sherpas make a living. Of course for the sherpas, it also leads to sherpas havin…

Oh I think that you definitely have to be a bit out of your mind to climb those mountains. If you ever look at the Wikipedia entries for people who specifically were trying to tackle the 14 8000ers, you discover just how many would succeed on several mountains then die on another one. Even Cho Oyu, considered by many t…

Wow, almost makes the group (lots of climbing experience, but very little of it with 8000ers) that went up with Rob Hall in 1996 look like a bunch of hugely accomplished mountaineers.

While many experienced mountaineers aren’t for the use of supplemental oxygen, some experienced mountaineers do use it. Plus it’s not just that that can kill a person on Everest. You have exhaustion from pushing too hard (the mantra of any experienced climber being that it’s more important to come back down than to rea…

Plenty of the 8000ers provide challenges and there are plenty to be found in the Alps and the Andes that also provide rigorous challenges. Of course they aren’t the tallest mountain in the world and I suspect that’s why people do it, twisting Mallory’s “because it’s there” into some sort of quasi-trophy.

Also fun fact, this year had a team doing a concerted push to remove trash and bodies from Everest. They ended up bringing down 24,000 pounds of trash and 4 bodies.

Given how even very experienced climbers have died on Everest, I find it really interesting that it’s become this thing that people cut massive checks to take that risk. I mean if you want adventure and much less of a risk, you could just go up to Base Camp I, which is plenty high but not nearly as likely to end up…

If only nature had somehow made K2 the tallest mountain in the world... It’s a much more difficult climb and even though only truly experienced mountaineers actually go up it, still has the second highest death rate of any 8000-er. It’s also the only one that hasn’t been summited in the winter.

I honestly cannot believe how much better the second series is, especially given how great the first one was.

I can’t remember what episode it was, but I remember when someone in the comments said jokingly about needing to have a straight relationship for once (my guess is during Nate and Zari hooking up) and it dawned on me just how many characters on the show fit into LGBTQ. Plus the fact that the show features bi…

I was SO sad when he left. And yet now I don’t find myself missing him at all, even though I think that he’d fit in beautifully with the show now.

I get how the wall breaking can be off-putting, but given how it pays off so beautifully with both Hot Priest being the only one in the show to notice it (leading to some truly electrifying breaks in my opinion) and the final wave, I think that it works gangbusters.

Thanks! I’ve been thinking of signing up for that and you may have just settled that.

If you had told me Legends would be my favorite Arrowverse show, even though my main reason for being excited about it (Arthur Darvill) was no longer there, say 3 years ago... I would’ve called you crazy. And yet here we are.

He’ll always be Colin Robinson to me. Honestly, I don’t think I could think of him by his actual name because of the show.

Which service did you use to watch it on? I’ve been taking a long break from k-dramas, thanks to the shock dissolution of Dramafever, and have been wanting to get back in.

Olivia Colman is a gem and I am SO happy that she is finally getting the reconition that she has long deserved. And the amazing thing about her performance in Fleabag is that it may be her best one yet, which is truly saying something.

I was honestly bereft at the end of Fleabag. I wanted not just a third series, but 4 more series.

I am honestly shocked that it has managed to, in my opinion, equal its film predecessor. I suspect that part of it comes from the fact that Clement and Waititi were so involved with the creative side, if not in front of the camera.

I came for Matt Berry and because I really liked the movie and stayed for her.