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Yesterday I watched the movie Sherpa: The Trouble on Everest. Just realised one thing how phoney climbing Mount Everest is. For a 25 member expedition there are 30 sherpas carrying stuff for them, from oxygen cylinders to the tea kettles. Truly hardcore stuff: as they wake up in their tents sherpas are serving hot tea. Sure, it is very hard to get to the top with all the help you can get, but doing it this way is like squatting 300 kg with "spotters" giving a hand.

The movie is about the day in 2014 when an ice avalanche killed 16 sherpas in a moment and events that followed. Beautiful scenery.

Was the tea served in Wedgwood bone china cups? Styrofoam would be hardcore.

DikTracy6000 wrote:Was the tea served in Wedgwood bone china cups? Styrofoam would be hardcore.

Tea cups made from the skulls of dead snow leopards

Golly, that's shocking. You mean these Sherpa people actually do all the work so an optomist for Topeka can say he climbed Everest? Why hasn't anyone ever pointed this our before?

Don't be a dick, Seahill. Sure I knew about Sherpas, but the magnitude of the "assistance" in the movie was unexpected. Call me naive.