Those mountain queues look sad. Like people queuing in the city for ramen. I'd rather go to a "boring" nature reserve but with no people there.

This is the Taoist notion of overdevelopment in full effect, which modern humandkind is mostly oblivious/ignorant of.

I find it quite amusing. A couple of years back a good friend of mine went to Everest basecamp. That wasn't even the summit. So they have WiFi up there now and I get a message from her. The message was "made it" with a selfie attached where she actually looked like she hated her entire existence and wondered what the hell she was doing with her life. It was visibly rammed and apparently it smelled of human shit.

Expensive way to have a bad time.

The film “The Bucket List” has a lot to answer for…

There is a whole YouTube subgenre for weird mountainniering stories. The whole scene already was crazy before mass tourism entered the game.

I never blame the individual for this. Society has been pushing the concept of "success" and "achievement" for quite a while. I'm of the superstitious opinion that something divine forced the hand of AI to put an end to our endless pursuits and re-think this whole life of "work".

"just to climb a overcrowded rock and tick a checkbox on your pathetic life's"

why the HATE so much lol

Because others are exploited and risk their lives to get these people up that peak. If it was only them going up on their own without expectations to be rescued if something goes wrong no one would have a problem with it.

Have you asked the Sherpas how they feel before you started calling them "exploited" and advocating for the destruction of their lifestyle?

Are they really being exploited? Or is it just something they do for money of their own volition?

Because I find it genuinely pathetic. That's what I considered cool when I was 8 but then I grew up and realised my actions have consequences and that life isn't about literally consuming as many things and experiences as you can regardless of the externalities.