[dhosek]

Back in the 90s, I went to see an IMAX film about climbing Everest and at the beginning, I was thinking, “I could do this,” but as it continued my view turned into, “I will never do this. This is insane.”

What’s really scary now is that it’s turned into something where people have to literally stand in line to reach the summit.

[marcyb5st]

If you like hiking and tough, but rewarding, trails, consider the one to the base camp of Everest, or the roundtrip around the Annapurna. I did both and they are truly amazing without the craziness that has become climbing those Mountains. When I reached the basecamp it really felt like being in a weird Venice or Florence, with "tourist groups" and their guides. Crazy stuff.

Especially the Annapurna one, you still climb up to 5+k meters in altitude, and seeing the actual mountain still towering over you is crazy once you realize.

[trhway]

With today tech - cameras, drones - the tragedy would unfold like a reality TV.

Several months ago a woman broke her leg and stuck as a result at 6800m on Pobeda Peak in Russia and died in several days while the whole country was watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbr02F36YdQ

[21asdffdsa12]

There was a video-stream company that got famous live-streaming a technician who fell when dismounting a condor-egg camera.

[verzali]

... pied piper?...

[throwup238]

For context: One climber died and a helicopter crashed trying to rescue her. No one's ever been rescued before at that altitude on that mountain range.

[TFNA]

> 6800m on Pobeda Peak in Russia

I thought, “There’s no way a peak in Russia can be that high”, and indeed, you got the unit wrong, this is 3,003 m. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Pobeda_(Sakha)

[trhway]

you've got the wrong peak. 7439m:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jengish_Chokusu

3000m is nothing. Mount Shasta is 4200m and we, just regular guys, walked up to its summit without any experience, etc. in 2 days. People easy do it in 1 day.

[TFNA]

Jengish Chokusu is in Kyrgyzstan, not Russia. And during the Soviet era it was part of the Kyrgyz SFSR, not the Russian SFSR. You’d have to be talking about events happening before 1917 (when it was part of the general Russian Empire) for someone writing in 2026 to reasonably describe it as “in Russia”.

> 3000m is nothing

Not (to speak of the other Peak Pobeda) in Yakutia.

[dredmorbius]

From the Meduza story linked earlier in this subthread:

Russian mountain climber Natalia Nagovitsina, who got stranded on Kyrgyzstan’s Pobeda Peak on August 12 after suffering an injury during her descent, has died...

<https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/03/stranded-russian-climbe...>

The climber was Russian. The peak, Kyrgyzstani. The name "Pobeda" means "Victory" in Russian. Mountains (and other geographic features) often share names, and specifying which and where can occasionally be confusing.

Tolerance for someone mis-remembering elements of a story helps avoid tedious comment litigation.

[TFNA]

Confusing a country that won independence from its colonizer with said colonizer (regardless of whether it was a typical geographical misconception around "Russia" or a mere slipup) is pretty insensitive.

[rob74]

Be that as it may, the highest peak in Russia (and in all of Europe) is Mt. Elbrus, which is 5,642 m. Guess it sucks to be a peak in the 7000-8000 m range in Asia, which would be the highest peak on any other continent, but in Asia, it's just one of many...

[no-name-here]

Text: https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/03/stranded-russian-climbe...

Link at the bottom has previous update

[bambax]

I could absolutely not do this, but "Into Thin Air" (which mentions Green Boots many times) is a great book. Highly recommended.