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This is my co-worker and close friend Ian Stewart. He made it to the summit the same day that the crowded summit line photo was taken. One of the guys in his group died. Below is a link to his blog. Included in that is his interview with CNN. Long read, but very interesting and some great pics. He comes back to work next week; I'm looking forward to talking to him about it.

https://everest2019.home.blog/

 
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WayneDougan said:
This is my co-worker and close friend Ian Stewart. He made it to the summit the same day that the crowded summit line photo was taken. One of the guys in his group died. Below is a link to his blog. Below that is his interview with CNN. Long read, but very interesting and some great pics. He comes back to work next week; I'm looking forward to talking to him about it

https://everest2019.home.blog/

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It’s hard to really look at it any more than amusement ride for the rich. I mean a big line of people with highly trained sherpas doing the work before hand.The scenes must be amazing but the risk adventure is not well received as far as look what i did. It’s sad to see such a natural beauty be littered with rotting corpses of idiot humans. I hope people are well compensated getting their bodies off a natural treasure
 
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It’s hard to really look at it any more than amusement ride for the rich. I mean a big line of people with highly trained sherpas doing the work before hand.The scenes must be amazing but the risk adventure is not well received as far as look what i did. It’s sad to see such a natural beauty be littered with rotting corpses of idiot humans. I hope people are well compensated getting their bodies off a natural treasure
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Ian isn't rich and has been climbing his entire life. Furthermore, he had minimal Sherpa support.
 
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homeytheclown said:
It’s hard to really look at it any more than amusement ride for the rich. I mean a big line of people with highly trained sherpas doing the work before hand.The scenes must be amazing but the risk adventure is not well received as far as look what i did. It’s sad to see such a natural beauty be littered with rotting corpses of idiot humans. I hope people are well compensated getting their bodies off a natural treasure
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One good thing is the only people who will see the rotting corpses and trash left behind are the people who will either be rotting corpses or leave trash behind.
 
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That’s crazy ****. The fact they are shown climbing in one picture next to a dead body makes it eerie.
 
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Oh it's terribly stupid and selfish, especially with a family at home, but a pretty awesome feat.
 
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Hold on, you're calling me a narcissist? Fairly certain anyone that knows me would beg to differ. ******* weirdo.
 
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Perhaps - but he's significantly more successful than you will ever be. Which is perhaps why you are so angry.
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Or he’s an insufferable douche who climbed so he could swing his dick. Whatever..he gave Karma the slip while the other narcissist **** nozzles cashed in their chips. Suitable ending to a life of ***-kissing ,backstabbing, materialism and leveraging to the eyeballs. Stupid fu**s

Damn Wayne you’re a **** ton better than this. I know you are
 
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Some of you really need to get out and live life a little more, and your jealousy and desperation truly proves that.

I don’t have the skill/time/funds/ability to climb Everest, but I’d do it in a heartbeat if I did. And yeah, I’d be swinging my Richard all over the place afterwards, too. TMFS.
 
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CatGotMyTongue said:
Or he’s an insufferable douche who climbed so he could swing his dick. Whatever..he gave Karma the slip while the other narcissist **** nozzles cashed in their chips. Suitable ending to a life of ***-kissing ,backstabbing, materialism and leveraging to the eyeballs. Stupid fu**s

Damn Wayne you’re a **** ton better than this. I know you are
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Ian’s pretty much the opposite of that. But whatever. He’s a 33-year old who has climbed the tallest mountains in every continent in the world save Antarctica - all without guides until Everest; not some guy going through a mid-life crisis who paid to get to the top. And you wouldn’t even know it because he only talks about it if you ask him to.

This backlash shouldn’t be surprising - Ed Viesturs (one of the greatest climbers of all time) - wrote that 10% of the emails and comments he received were very negative - all about how selfish climbing mountains were.

Enjoy the pictures and story. Or don’t. But tired old takes about karma and selfishness are played out.
 
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This thread goes to show you never know what's going to put people on the defensive.

I guess glorified day hiking/porter competion is that sacred cow.
 
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This is hilarious. Any comment section on this story will always divide into the two groups now. Those who think he is a douche and those that think that the people criticizing them are losers.
 
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Awesome read. Congrats to him for that accomplishment. He's an experienced climber who almost became another Everest statistic. Twice. And his teammate that he had bonded with along with their wives is either still sitting high up that mountain frozen to death or was slid down the southwest face.

But make no mistake-- climbs like this are the pinnacle of selfishness. Kudos to him for scratching that itch and being able to come home to his wife.
 
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WayneDougan said:
This is my co-worker and close friend Ian Stewart. He made it to the summit the same day that the crowded summit line photo was taken. One of the guys in his group died. Below is a link to his blog. Included in that is his interview with CNN. Long read, but very interesting and some great pics. He comes back to work next week; I'm looking forward to talking to him about it.

https://everest2019.home.blog/
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So your friend & co-worker made it to the top of Everest, but you couldn't even make it up Mt. Rainier?

It must be hard to face him at work.
 
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I, for one, am impressed with anybody who completes a climb to the top of Everest.

I've never made it past camp IV.

Then again, I don't use supplemental oxygen like most of those pansies do. It's ruining the purity of the climb and allowing too many weak climbers to get to the top, thus endangering us all.

So, scratch that, I'm not impressed one bit.
 
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I never had aspirations of extreme high altitude climbing nor do I believe I could have done it. Climbing the NW face of Half Dome was my best achievement. But I know climbing, it’s in my DNA. It’s one of many things which drew me here. I live in a place with probably 10,000 named climbs within 10 miles of my house, and is home to some of the best climbers on the planet. Sadly some of the people who lead those Everest climbs for profit. It was a passion which burned bright in me. I taught lead rock climbing for the Colorado Mountain Club for years. I could load up my rack and lead rope, pedal down to Eldorado Canyon about 4 miles from my house, and spend the day away from this world.

What’s going on in Nepal is a tragedy. I’m not judging your friend, but wow somehow it’s become part of the global problem of overcrowded tourism. So many people with so much money to be lead up for the profits of companies and Nepal. It does not represent the call to the rock faces and big mountains this boy from the deepest, darkest hills of eastern Kentucky heard.
 
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So your friend & co-worker made it to the top of Everest, but you couldn't even make it up Mt. Rainier?

It must be hard to face him at work.
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Fair point: My only saving grace is that our guides forced us to leave. As in, "you don't know the way up and we're not going with you, plus we have all the rope." On the other hand, when Ian climbed Denali, he stayed at the high camp for 10 days stuck in a blizzard.
 
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Ian’s pretty much the opposite of that. But whatever. He’s a 33-year old who has climbed the tallest mountains in every continent in the world save Antarctica - all without guides until Everest; not some guy going through a mid-life crisis who paid to get to the top. And you wouldn’t even know it because he only talks about it if you ask him to.

This backlash shouldn’t be surprising - Ed Viesturs (one of the greatest climbers of all time) - wrote that 10% of the emails and comments he received were very negative - all about how selfish climbing mountains were.

Enjoy the pictures and story. Or don’t. But tired old takes about karma and selfishness are played out.
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Did he get a selfie at the summit? I'll bet he did. I'd look at the blog, but don't have the time. I'm working out my plan to climb the stairs from the basement to the den. The Sherpas will be here later today.

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