Yes indeed. I dreamd to go up there but not anymore. Real climbers like Messner Kukuczka and Boukreev made it all alone with out supplementary oxygen defeating their own weaknesses and ego. Today it can cost as much as 120000 with personal chef and personal photographer. It's disruptive. It's madness. But still no money in the world can guarantee that anyone will turn back alive.

"It is just more extreme version of the drugs mixed with extoric travel"

Very good saying.

@joethepro

You mean really heavy drug usage? :-)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/29/no-self-respecting-climber-would-call-climbing-telegraph-readers/

Even the media calls it what it is.

We are really living the times that the past history never seen.

@jleo

Next... all the billionaires will go to the Moon and Mars, and never come back! :)

I hope they will took most of government clerks with them and big part of police :-)

But it is nice perspective, we need to make big ship and use it to research sun at close distances :-)

This is another side

Long time ago i was on heavy drugs and belive me hell it's like nothing religion talks obout.

Its just a feeling a deep one that seems like forever.

But there is a song ho says that forever it's not so long...

"Everest, mostly rich guys in big crowds near summit" Maybe there's a guy at the top handing out tax breaks. That would explain the popularity.