Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Everest

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Climbing Mount Everest has become dangerously popular. John Oliver explains why.

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Do you think this is just natural selection at its finest, ONTD?

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[bdl]

all that risk just to have a mediocre party story. i don't think i'd be very impressed if someone told me that they'd climbed mt. everest.

georgia covered some mt everest deaths in a recent episode of my favorite murder and it was just depressing.

[ferelden]

Honestly it’s an impressive story IF they did it on their own/are an avid mountain climber and climbed it with support, but only if they’ve climbed other mountains before. I don’t find it very impressive if Everest is the only mountain they’ve climbed. Because at the end of the day Everest isn’t even the hardest Himalayan peak to climb. It’s just the highest and therefore trophy hunters salivate at bagging it

[qween_frostine]

I was in Nepal (not trekking, visiting a relative) at the same time this was happening and it was absolutely insane to see the straight up hubris of some of the trekkers I came across. The amount of money that under-qualified, bored people are willing to spend just to climb to the top of a mountain (all while polluting the surroundings, often exploiting the locals, and generally being the worst) is staggering.

Idk, I didn't go anywhere near the mountains and I had an amazing time, ate some amazing food, and I don't feel any worse off for it.

[vintage_boom]

lmaooo at them using megan mccain montage for their and now this segment when a user here made one last week. which writers are lurking here?!

[sucha_handful]

omg no way

[fabulousdoll]

lol I thought the same

[bellwetherr]

lmao get them a job at hbo STAT

[thespockingdead]

Idek what the thrill of climbing an overcrowded mountain is. Doesn’t being surrounded by other tourists and waiting in a LINE kind of spoil the mood?? Tourists have really ruined all the stuff that used to seem adventurous.

[merel_93]

All that effort to kill yourself, others and the sherpa´s, littering an entire mountainside just because you want a pic for Instagram. Social media continues to be a shithole