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People talking about all the dead on mt everest, and there's perhaps something interesting in this metamorphosis:
>Hillary makes the climb as a pioneer, alone, intrepid, and brave
> His accomplishment is commodified and packaged into a monetary experience
> Thousands of yuppies turn his act into an achievable piece of bragging rights, completely strip away the hero's DNA within the climb = it's now pure vanity & braggadocio
> Aged hero, in the twilight of his life, sees his imitators - weaker, less pure of heart - ruin all that he loved about his accomplishment
IDK, it's interesting to me. There's something that's very spiritually disgusting to me about "everest" people today, they have a palpable sliminess that you don't feel from others too often