Or maybe that you’re not so special that you’re worth endangering others following an unpaved path.

Multiple points along the Nepalese approach to the summit are crevices that have not been charted or mapped, or developed to facilitate rescues in case you fall in.

Those crevices are crossed by laying a fucking home depot ladder down over them to act as a temporary bridge.

This is not a climb that is ready for regular visitors. It probably won’t ever be one so long as we continue letting people just be a fucking mess all over it instead of putting down the actual infrastructure that would be needed for the approach to handle the volume of demand it has.

It would even benefit the locals, they get well paying jobs developing the infrastructure, anyone who wishes to keep doing guide work has a far safer job ahead of them, and after the infrastructure is developed there’s now also the newly made safe work of rescue jobs and in maintaining the infrastructure.