Being sent around the world on social media doesn’t change the copyright status in the slightest. The NYT caption sources it from Getty Images, which I’m guessing Deadspin does have a license for, so probably the caption is no longer accurate (though there have been issues in the past with image services claiming, and…

I don’t think you people understand the impact this can have on a person.

I used to want to climb Everest for a couple of reasons: I was a good climber in my younger days and I love the mountains. And, as a much more secondary reason, I’d been to the Dead Sea so I thought it would be cool to say that I’d stood on the lowest and highest points on earth.

Exactly.  Everest has become Coachella.

My biggest objection to the Everest climbs is that you put other people’s lives at risk by doing it. Sure, most are getting paid, but still. 

I mean, there’s still some overlap there.

Good point. It can easily be hundreds of dead one of these years.

It’s been a while since I read Into Thin Air but Krakauer was talking about how dangerous the line was back when he did his climb and I think that was less than 10 people (if I’m remembering correctly, it definitely wasn’t as extreme as the picture).

He died doing what he loved: experiencing hypothermia and pulmonary edema, confused, unable to breathe, feeling his pulse plummeting, and falling down in a place where his body may never be recovered. But on the other hand, he did put a lot of other people’s lives at risk in the process. So there’s that. 

I regularly partake in outdoor adventures including a thruhike of the John Muir Trail this summer and tons of bike packing adventures. My friends will randomly ask, “would you ever climb Mt. Everest?”

No. Hell no.

I’d be more proud of summiting any number of lesser more technical summits instead of partaking in this…

I’ve been completely discouraged from hiking any of my favorite trails around here by such bank queues. It’s getting harder and harder to find actual “wilderness” anymore. All the hipster masses that have been gravitating to Portland for “the great outdoor opportunities” are basically destroying what they moved here…

I spent 30 minutes in line at a street festival in 70 degree weather to pay $8 for an award winning tamale yesterday and got a little sunburned, so I know how they feel.

It turns out people spending more time in “the death zone” is leading to more deaths. No one could have seen this coming...

Fixed it. Now all I have to do is kill you and then no one will learn of my error. (In case you are wondering- yes, I am tenting my fingers)

I imagine part of the allure of climbing Everest was not just it being the highest point on Earth yet the now antiquated belief that so few people could actually do it.

Those “climbers” paid $75k or better to get guided to the point where they starred in that photo. You couldn’t pay me enough to join them, and I like spending time outdoors. Disney Land at the top of the world, complete with a side of death.

Climbing Mt. Everest is like getting a PHD in rocket science from the University of Phoenix

The WSJ isn’t really the same paper it was when it was sold to the Murdoch empire. Their primary journalism is still pretty good, but their editorial page is just a slightly higher brow version of Fox News.

“Recall the false promises about corn and cellulosic ethanol,”

The IFO study, bizarrely, seems to advocate for natural gas-powered vehicles as a “transitioning” technology on the way to cars powered by hydrogen, which, sure, I guess, and “‘green’ methane,” a product which does not exist.