woman gets grief for using helicopter for part of her Everest climb

[Coventina]

7. Warning: Rantish

From what I've read and seen on documentaries, the situation at Everest is almost out of control.

It's overcrowded for conditions, rich idiots get themselves (and others) in trouble because they aren't trained properly for the ascent, people have to be left to die, because no one can afford the energy to bring them down if they get past a certain point, it's getting very polluted, because again, people cannot or will not clean up after themselves. And, it's a highly dangerous place on a GOOD day, for the best trained and most knowledgeable.

It's gotten to the point with stories like this and many others that I look upon people who want to climb Everest as simply selfish a-holes who want to have something on their bucket list that will outshine anyone else they happen to talk to at a cocktail party.