But if he doesn’t spend it on VC, what else will he blow predatory mortage profit money on?

And most (probably all) of those “engineers” you single out as deserving of your praise, are, in fact, just climbers themselves.

Why do you assume these two climbers are rich? They are professional mountaineers, not annual Everest summiteers.

No one made the rescuers attempt the rescue. They agreed to do it.