Want to climb Everest?

Copper

Anyone with the price of the ticket can fly over Everest any day of the week.

Just ask your pilot to point at it as you fly past.

taiwan_girl

Look at this recent selfie from the top of Mt. Everest. As was commented; beautiful but looks like a garbage dump.

Doctor Phibes

@taiwan_girl said in Want to climb Everest?:

Look at this recent selfie from the top of Mt. Everest. As was commented; beautiful but looks like a garbage dump.

That photograph really makes me wonder whether the flat-earthers are actually totally wrong about the whole turtle thing.

Also, humans are really disgusting.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@Doctor-Phibes said in Want to climb Everest?:

That photograph really makes me wonder whether the flat-earthers are actually totally wrong

It's a funky lens on the camera. C'mon, man!

Doctor Phibes

@George-K said in Want to climb Everest?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Want to climb Everest?:

That photograph really makes me wonder whether the flat-earthers are actually totally wrong

It's a funky lens on the camera. C'mon, man!

Damn, you're probably right. Appararently the curve isn't visible from there.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@Doctor-Phibes said in Want to climb Everest?:

Appararently the curve isn't visible from there.

I believe you have to be at about 50K feet to appreciate the curve.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Chat GPT:

The curvature of the Earth becomes apparent at different altitudes depending on various factors like atmospheric clarity and viewing conditions. However, a general guideline is:

Commercial Airliner Altitude (30,000 to 40,000 feet or about 9 to 12 kilometers): Passengers may start to perceive a slight curvature, especially when looking out of the window over a broad horizon.

Higher Altitudes (50,000 feet or about 15 kilometers and above): The curvature becomes more pronounced and noticeable.

Very High Altitudes (above 100,000 feet or about 30 kilometers): The curvature is clearly visible and unmistakable.

Doctor Phibes

@George-K said in Want to climb Everest?:

I believe you have to be at about 50K feet to appreciate the curve.

Presumably the chances that the people who insist on the flat earth "theory" have the intellectual wherewithall to build a rocket capable of getting up that high are negligible.

Klaus

Wow, look at the amount of people there. I've never wanted to climb Mount Everest, but now I want it even less.

89th

@Horace said in Want to climb Everest?:

Anybody here ever summit Everest? I mean other than me? Standing atop the world, looking down on the planet and all of its inhabitants, finally proving my abject superiority over everybody else, was deeply humbling.

Here's the question, do you lie and tell people you climbed the 29,000-ft mountain or do you really admit you flew into an airport 2/3 of the way up and then climbed the rest? I want to meet the first person to truly climb the mountain from the bottom of the mountain.

Klaus

@89th said in Want to climb Everest?:

@Horace said in Want to climb Everest?:

Anybody here ever summit Everest? I mean other than me? Standing atop the world, looking down on the planet and all of its inhabitants, finally proving my abject superiority over everybody else, was deeply humbling.

Here's the question, do you lie and tell people you climbed the 29,000-ft mountain or do you really admit you flew into an airport 2/3 of the way up and then climbed the rest? I want to meet the first person to truly climb the mountain from the bottom of the mountain.

But where does the mountain start?

I guess if you mean "from zero" then the trip would be at least a 1000 miles long. The next place with elevation 0 seems to be somewhere at the coast of India.

Copper

Sea level is kind of arbitrary, go all the way to the bottom.

Sure you need O2, but you need it at the top too.

89th

@Klaus Ok how about the Koshi Bridge or similar location at the base of the Himalayas. That's like 200m, I'll take that as a legit "start from the bottom of the mountain".

taiwan_girl

@89th That is actually quite an interesting question.

Horace

Maybe that’s why we, those who have summited Everest, find it so humbling. We know we failed the real challenge of starting at the bottom.

Doctor Phibes

Other than Horace, who my sources inform me started 17 feet from the top, I think a lot of people start at about 9000 feet above sea level. I know somebody normal (i.e. non climber) who made the walk to base camp, and they said that was adventure enough.

I'm guessing that it doesn't get easier the higher you go, despite the reduced wind-resistance as the air thins.