When INEXPERIENCE Meets MOUNT EVEREST - The Shriya Shah-Klorfine Story

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I'm thinking of climbing Everest as well. The only drawbacks are I hate the cold, I get dizzy looking down from great heights, I'm kind of old and out of shape (I can barely bend over and touch my toes), I get really impatient being held up in crowds, and I don't like camping or hiking. But other than that, I'm good to go. Wish me luck!

They say this woman was "determined". She was no such thing! A determined person is one who is willing to put in the necessary work. She never bothered even to get herself to the necessary fitness level; constantly slowing everybody down, the only thing she displayed was entitlement: "I've paid my money, now you must all pander to my uselessness". There is a huge abyss between "determination" and "delusion".

Every frozen corpse on Everest was once an extremely motivated person.

As Ed Viesturs once said "Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory” People who ultimately decide to come back despite not reaching the summit are way wiser than those who persist and die

I cannot fathom the thought process of someone who says "I have absolutely no experience climbing mountains but I'm going to choose Everest as my first".

A major problem is that the self-help/motivation industry pushes the idea that you can do ANYTHING if you are determined enough. If people are realistic about problems and shortcomings then they are called weak because they lack self-belief.

"Saving lives is really the only job the expedition leader has" that's what he was trying to do by stopping Shriya from continuing to climb.

This might sound extreme butI genuinely think it takes a huge sense of self importance and narcissistic tendencies* to do what she did. She put others in danger, it wasn't like she went there and got out by herself. She made people climb with her, forced them to babysit her and ultimately recover her body all because she wanted to. It takes a certain lever of delusion and sense of grandiosity to do that.

I understand what the husband meant by saying that she was looking for something up on the mountain and it would have changed the way she saw herself. But at the same time it’s just a mountain, if you feel incomplete before you climbed Everest, being on the summit isn’t going to change that feeling.

It’s not that they told her that she would die that is bad, but they also said she WOULD KILL sherpas if she went up and STILL did it tells me everything I need to know about this person.

I have been a mountain rescue operator for over 35 years all over the world as a civilian and an instructor at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center for a decade before that and I have no desire to attempt Everest. Not because I'm afraid of it, but because of the amount of inexperience that is allowed on that mountain. I believe it's just another deadly by-product of social media and the need to feed ones narcissism.

Can't imagine the frustration of waiting in that line, feeling your energy sap away minute by minute, knowing there's some unqualified person up there whining and holding everybody back.

When I was a child in the 60s, Everest was still one of those places that only the most intrepid and experienced would attempt to climb. Nowadays it's a free-for-all, and frankly, I feel it would just be like any other over-hyped, over-crowded tourist destination, full of obnoxious foreigners leaving garbage everywhere.

The leader tried to save her life by stopping her from summiting in the first place. By going against advice, she put not only herself but also the sherpas in extreme risk. It's one thing to have determination, but it's another to refuse to see the obvious obstacles and warnings in front of you.

Shriya knew others would feel inclined to risk their lives to save hers if something went wrong. She counted on it. It's sick.

I climbed Kilimanjaro about 15 years ago. Looking back it was nothing more than a circus of performers. The tourist climbers, as I was, in all our little parties with guides, porters, cooks etc. All lead guides striving to get maximum numbers to summit in order to gain bragging rights in the cut throat marketing efforts to gain future clients. Any notion of solitude and tranquillity in that environment was well and truly shattered and any further notion I had toyed with about doing any Himalayan peak, never mind Everest, died on the trip home.I can only imagine the Everest experience would be like Kili on steroids. When I see pictures of a huge line of 10s of dozens of multi coloured climbers strung out waiting for hours on end for their shot on the Hilary step and the sight of the trash strewn over the mountain of abandoned camps kit, equipment and waste just makes me despair. We humans invade nature’s treasured spots then set about corrupting then destroying it.

This whole "the first this and that" is getting ever more ridiculous. Soon it will be "the first left-handed Asian 24 yr old woman from New Zealand with 5 kids and 3 degrees who likes dolphins and has met Kevin Bacon once to summit Mt. Everest".

This woman was from Toronto. She took to the streets and (illicitly) claimed to be raising money for the local Hospital for Sick Children, which is how she funded her climb. She was a con beginning to end. Even after her death her local fan base tried to keep up the scam. I do feel sorry for her husband, but regret she was not stopped early in the game.

I had 2 classmates of mine die at a treacherous mountain in Peru. They were only 21 and 23. They were athletic and thought of themselves as "experienced climbers" . But they had no guide with them and only made it half way up when they disappeared. 8 days later a rescue group found their bodies in a 100 ft crevasse . They think an avalanche happened or they both fell into it. So tragic. But when you're that young. You think you're invincible and smarter than you actually are.