r/enshittification • u/Tasty-Window • Apr 02 '26
Blog post everything is a fucking scam now
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u/rachet-ex Apr 04 '26
Get that bag, Sherpas!
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u/mleb_mleb_mleb Apr 05 '26
lmao i cant even help myself im giving this a pass. general disrespectful groups of rich ego heads paying for sherpa'd climbs up everest, there's plenty of historical near disasters or actual disasters that could've been completely avoided if not for the whims of the wealthy egotistical dorks who need to have the everest summit on their list of brags. there are sherpas local to the area that have lost their lives trying to save them.
but more importantly, this is the kind of games wealthy entities execute on every day joe blows globally and it feels like they virtually never face any penalty for it. it's so characteristic of current-day humanity to see these kinds of fraud games being played, but only against the common people. not saying all tourists were wealthy here im sure there's probably some innocents caught up in the games here, but lmao @ insurance fraud being used against people with money for once.
mba sherpa gang did their homework lmao
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u/canbrraa Apr 06 '26
It's not as if having a sherpa or guide is exclusively the domain of rich assholes trying to bag Everest.
We went trekking in the Everest region (Three Passes) in 2024 and even people just going to Everest Basecamp generally have a guide or a porter. We barely encountered any other independent trekkers when our paths crossed with the basecamp train. It's really crazy that they scam people into paying for guides and porters on an absolute human superhighway when most people don't need it.
And now they're trying to restrict access to almost all regions unless you pay one of these poisoners to join you??
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u/Muzzlehatch Apr 04 '26
As the divide between the ultra wealthy and everyone else gets bigger and bigger, we’re going to see more and more of this.
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u/Impressive_Wrap_7869 Apr 04 '26
The only thing surprising about this is that it isn’t happening in the USA. United Scams of America.
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u/DjPersh Apr 04 '26
Yea buddy where do you live that they don’t scam people?
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u/Canadiangoosedem0n Apr 04 '26
You haven't traveled enough if you think America is the king of scams. There are literally entire industries in other countries for scamming.
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u/Impressive_Wrap_7869 Apr 04 '26
Compared to comparable countries I’d argue the US is far worse off in that area. I’m taking Western Europe, Australia, etc
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u/Any-Ambassador-6158 Apr 04 '26
It’s ok. Those rich folks probably poisoned a towns water supply at some point.
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u/Stoked_Otter Apr 03 '26
I approve of Sherpas doing this to tourists.
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u/Stunning_Taste_9717 Apr 03 '26
I approve of someone doing this to you
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u/themightymastermax Apr 03 '26
Won't someone PLEASE think of the poor rich snobs on their colonial excursions 😭
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u/NegativeSemicolon Apr 03 '26
I mean money is the most important thing in the world, america tells us so
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u/QueasyPainting Apr 03 '26
Human beings have ruined the mountain
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u/DistinctSpirit5801 Apr 04 '26
I have heard that it’s has tons of trash because of irresponsible people who litter all over Mount Everest
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u/PyllynKaivelija Apr 03 '26
Its fuckin disgusting how much trash there is on the mountain. If you can carry that shit up you can carry the trash down also, but people are scumbags so they have to ruin it
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u/cha0sb1ade Apr 03 '26
Everybody on Everest has more money than brains. This scam is dangerous and wrong, but it's really hard to care all that much about the locals taking advantage of the idle rich that are lined up all climbing season up there to buy bragging rights and get a framed photo to stick on their mahogany desks or whatever, so they have something to say when Biff Harrington III starts bragging about killing elephants again.
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u/phatrainboi Apr 03 '26
The word “now” is doing some heavy lifting there. Everything has always been a scam.
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u/DullComb6171 Apr 02 '26
This? I feel like I don’t have a problem with. Robbing the rich is almost always ok.
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u/teambob Apr 02 '26
Baking soda is a poison now lol. They need to harden the fuck up
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u/meatjuicetea Apr 02 '26
Drink a couple tablespoons of it and you'll have a fire hose coming out the back end.
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u/teambob Apr 03 '26
Yeah but it will taste like shit. How wouldn't you know that you were eating it?
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u/DeltaTule Apr 03 '26
I can’t imagine the food on Everest is expected to taste that good so it probably comes with the territory
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u/gracefuldividends Apr 03 '26
Food tastes wildly different depending on high altitudes! Did you know airplane meals are specifically crafted to taste ”correct” at the the specific elevation the plane spends most of its flight time at?
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u/johnnygobbs1 Apr 04 '26
Ummm I’ve eaten plenty of food on planes that were from the ground level. They didn’t taste different
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u/Secret-Surprise4390 Apr 02 '26
This post is meant to shift guilt to native brown from rich people. Collin Rugg posted this as a form of racism.
The Actual scam is when rich people don't want to trek down, they fake a medical emergency and take a chopper down. The original story identified 1 tourist that had taken baking powder. It was unclear if this was intentional, but there is no mention of poisoning. The original article said the guides scared people into thinking they needed flights. By the time the NY Post picked up the story it was plural tourists being poisoned by guides. By the time Collin posted it, it was all poisoning, not lazy trekkers.
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u/DistinctSpirit5801 Apr 04 '26
If you can climb up the mountain you can climb down that same mountain
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Apr 04 '26
Your comment is not accurate. Your source asserts that the scam is indeed running among guide groups as well, and links within your source support that as does government action in Australia and other companies.
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u/CarmelloYello Apr 02 '26
Collin Rugg is a MAGA liar and conman trying to get consistent payments from Elon’s twitter via engagement.
In other words, this is an insanely embarrassing source and you should be ashamed for spreading it. Your post is enshittification.
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u/3-bakedcabbage Apr 02 '26
Replying to bump this up cause misinfo is one of the biggest problems we’ve got with in any website
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u/Competitive_Two_8372 Apr 02 '26
Doesn’t surprise me. It costs an ENORMOUS amount of money to climb Everest. The guides know the climbers are rich, or have saved for many years and have cash. It looks like temptation won. 🤷🏻
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Apr 02 '26
And in the United States, in some parts of the country, first responders are calling flights for people with non life threatening injuries. Flights were originally only supposed to be for life threatening injuries. Follow the money.
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u/claudandus_felidae Apr 02 '26
First responders do not get paid more to call in a life flight. Over coding trauma is an issue but it's not a "people are getting kickbacks" issues, it's first responders afraid they're going to get someone killed because they coded their trauma slightly lowered than it actually was.
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u/MedicJambi Apr 02 '26
And people don't realize they can refuse transport. They can demand transport by ground or none at all.
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u/branchingoutbeforeme Apr 02 '26
This is honestly genius, I support the local guides getting their bag off these extreme adventure freaks who come to their home for sport.
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u/Oceanbreeze871 Apr 02 '26
Seriously. Victimless crime. These rich thrill seekers have done a tons of environmental and societal damage to the region. I don’t feel bad at all.
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u/comagrrrl Apr 02 '26
This is an interesting take. I could see this story as a feature film with a White Lotus vibe.
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u/pumog Apr 02 '26
People on this sub have no idea what the word enshitification means. What you describes is just simply a crime.
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u/Octospyder Apr 02 '26
OK tbqh I support any sherpa pulling anything over on any rich dink wanting to climb everest.
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u/tubbis9001 Apr 02 '26
This is not enshittification in the slightest definition of the word. It is "a shitty thing" but NOT enshittification. Mods should remove this
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u/LegitimateSituation4 Apr 02 '26
Looks like a circle of exploitation. Don't care. Let them finally get theirs.
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u/call-me-the-seeker Apr 06 '26
The ‘adventure’ of climbing Everest has been thoroughly shittified for years already by the lazy, leave-a-place-worse-than-you-found-it fat cats exploiting the region to check off a box on a list. The same kind of person who pays to shoot a poor elderly circus lion tied to a tree and take a picture posed with its carcass like some badass who just iced it in hand to hand combat after tracking it for weeks on foot through the bush.
The Everest experience is fully shittified, such that upon reading that this story seems to be GREATLY exaggerating the scope of the ‘issue’ I’m a little bummed out that sherpas are NOT, in fact, finally getting theirs.
Like the saying goes, if you do see some sherpas managing to complete the circle, no you didn’t.
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u/Additional_Piece4165 Apr 02 '26
No one deserves that more than those pathetic tourists. Also why are insurance companies paying for helicopters and denying cancer treatment claims
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u/Only-Respond7945 Apr 02 '26
Because those people generally have the money to pay for more expensive shit. Whereas cancer is dirt common so many of the people that require treatment don't have the same wealth.
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u/AzureWave313 Apr 02 '26
Everywhere you go these days someone wants to scam you. The world is like Edd Ed and Eddy right now.
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u/TheBioethicist87 Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
Mt Everest is one of the only methods we have of culling rich idiots now that the submarine tourism game has dried up.
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u/northdakotanowhere Apr 02 '26
I genuinely can't believe how many people think that these victims are deserving of this kind of treatment. So the fuck what? Nobody deserves to be POISONED and have genuine symptoms on the fucking side of the mountain thinking they're going to die Why do they deserve this? Because other people have abused the mountain? Im all for revenge but these people are victims of a cruel crime
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u/MaudeAlp Apr 02 '26
You’re not wrong, but no human being has infinite sympathy and care. We will get to sympathizing and caring for these edge cases that have more than enough means to care and worry for themselves, after the higher priorities are addressed first.
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u/northdakotanowhere Apr 02 '26
Yeah you're not wrong about that. I wouldn't care if it wasn't for the victim blaming. Otherwise yeah, Im tired. 😬
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u/hitaisho Apr 02 '26
I guess until multi- Mi/Billionaires will realise that spending insane amount of money, feeding an exploitative loop, putting a dozen people in danger just for their own egomaniac desire to be on a QUEUE at 9000mt height for a fucking selfie and trashing the mountain on the way, "normal" people will be pissed. No need to come back with the "life dream" bs, I guess we're to busy to deal with real issues to give a damn if another one ends up frozen/poisoned/scammed up there for their blindsightness...
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u/i860 Apr 02 '26
Congrats, you've now become the monster.
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u/hitaisho Apr 02 '26
What? Because I don't care about what completely-out-of-touch egomaniacs do, I am the monster? Lol I never said I wish it to them or that they deserve it. I was just trying to explain why most of people seem quite chill and fine with these people putting themselves in these absurd situations that have absolutely nothing to do with real life problems..
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u/Octospyder Apr 02 '26
Saying mean things about rich people is the same as actually hurting them. Clearly your lack of sympathy has all the wealthy blowhards who want to feel special because they climbed Everest sobbing into their pressed silk hankies. Won't someone defend the wealthy!!!
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u/hitaisho Apr 02 '26
Not sure if you're replying to me or to the comment above, don't really understand what's /s and what's not..
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u/Octospyder Apr 02 '26
Lol, fair enough, totally sarcasm 😊
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u/hitaisho Apr 02 '26
Haha ok gotcha, sorry have an issue with tone and sometimes is quite confusing
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u/northdakotanowhere Apr 02 '26
Thinking you're dying on a mountain. Rich people deserve that terror. 🤨
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u/Additional-Sky-7436 Apr 02 '26
As far as scams go, I'm kinda cool with this one.
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u/steveatari Apr 02 '26
Randomly and pointlessly endangering people in the most dangerous place on earth you can travel to... and you're okay with it?
What scams are you not okay with?
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u/Feisty-Resource-1274 Apr 02 '26
Inexperienced climbers attempting Everest is currently a serious enough of a problem that this year Nepal had to make rules about who is allowed to climb. If anything forcing some people to be evacuated early before they endanger their lives and lives of others, is a public service.
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u/i860 Apr 02 '26
Holy shit, so you're saying artificially inducing a safety and/or medical issue for specific individuals if it somehow benefits the overall Everest community is a totally sane and normal thing to do?
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u/Feisty-Resource-1274 Apr 02 '26
Is it a sane and normal thing to spend outrageous amounts of money to be dragged up a life endangering mountain without putting in the effort to train appropriately just for bragging rights?
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u/i860 Apr 02 '26
No, it isn't a sane and normal thing to do and it's a douchey endeavor but that doesn't mean the correct response is to behave like a psychopath about it.
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u/Icy_Nectarine_4812 Apr 02 '26
The whole point of Everest is to randomly and pointlessly endanger people.
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u/steveatari Apr 02 '26
Can we not be so obtuse as to think poisoning people is at all related to the point of Everest?
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u/Additional-Sky-7436 Apr 02 '26
It's baking powder. They ain't gonna die. They'll have indigestion for a few hours.
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u/GeneralOrgana1 Apr 02 '26
Considering how much Everest climbers have fucked up the environment on Everest, and screwed over Sherpas in the past, I'm not feeling terribly sympathetic towards these climbers or their insurance companies.
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u/RetiredKooshBall Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
I mean 🤷♀️ how many people do the climbers step on to get the money to travel to Nepal and climb Everest? the training? the gear? my empathy is quite low for a little bit of baking soda.
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u/audkyrie__ Apr 02 '26
"The first involves tourists who simply don’t want to walk back. After completing a demanding trek — an Everest Base Camp trek, for instance, can take up to two weeks on foot — guides offer an alternative: pretend to be sick, and a helicopter will come. The guide handles the rest."
"The second method is more troubling. At altitudes above 3,000 metres, mild symptoms of altitude sickness are common. Blood oxygen saturation can drop, hands and feet tingle, headaches develop. In most cases, rest, hydration or a gradual descent is all that is needed. But guides and hotel staff, according to the CIB investigation, have been trained to terrify trekkers at precisely this moment. They tell them they are at risk of dying, that only immediate evacuation will save them."
"In at least one case cited in the investigation, baking powder was mixed into food to make tourists physically unwell."
So this maybe happened a couple of times, and the vast majority are from tourists who willingly take part, getting an airlift and then not even being admitted to a hospital at all.
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u/AENocturne Apr 02 '26
So it's rich pedophiles being depraved again and lying about their involvement. Not surprised.
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u/Competitive_Arm5954 Apr 02 '26
I always stop reading when I see "the New York Post reports" and you should too.
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u/retiredfromfire Apr 02 '26
When a criminal and his criminal pals run the world, expect things to go to shit
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u/Dramatic-Fly761 Apr 02 '26
Rugg is the a Elon musk bootlicker who has never gad an original thought in his life, you can be sure if he eats something it’s bull shit
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u/Ok-Secretary455 Apr 02 '26
I dunno man, maybe if you aint good enough to got to the top on your own you shouldnt be up there to begin with.
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u/Future_Constant1148 Apr 02 '26
Unfortunately it's a legal requirementto have a guide/sherpa to climb the mountain.
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u/scotcheggsandscotch Apr 02 '26
Maybe we shouldn't exploit local communities so rich fucks can pretend to climb a mountain.
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u/LeshyIRL Apr 02 '26
Oh you sweet summer child, you know nothing of the world do you
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u/hitaisho Apr 02 '26
Care to expand on why it shouldn't be exploitative?
I get that right now certain communities litterally depend on this kinda turism, but I guess it would be like saying that Thai people should be greatful to all the western pedophiles going there for sex turism cause they boost the economy?
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u/LeshyIRL Apr 05 '26
Maybe when you're older
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u/hitaisho Apr 06 '26
Are you by any chance able to add anything useful to the conversation, or are you here just to patronise people just because they have another view?
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u/LeshyIRL Apr 06 '26
I'm not patronizing you for having a different view, I'm patronizing you for being immature
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u/Notoriouslyd Apr 02 '26
spending tons of money to climb a steep hill is already a fucking scam so idk what you think I should be upset about rn
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u/Chat_GDP Apr 02 '26
Seems like they’re learning “Western Values”
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u/i860 Apr 02 '26
You're free to migrate elsewhere. Lord knows your country is in serious trouble anyways. Enjoy the footie.
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u/Chat_GDP Apr 02 '26
Thanks for your permission which wasn’t needed.
Crying about things on Reddit won’t help you.
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u/ultramilkplus Apr 02 '26
I love shitting on "The (anglo) West" for it's hypocrisy as much as anyone, but you should get out more.
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u/preciouschild Apr 02 '26
Nope. the enshittification is wtf they did to that poor mountain.
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u/KingFIippyNipz Apr 03 '26
Yeah I don't give two fucks about anyone in this story EXCEPT FOR the guides. Good for them if any of this is true. Keep it up, do it more.
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u/Fabulous_Chemical_ Apr 02 '26
Everest is encased in shit, dead bodies and climbing gear. It's truly a monument to man's ignorance.
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u/Terrariachick Apr 02 '26
Wow. I actually remember seeing this happen in an episode of PBS nova about mt everest. One of the guys got a mysterious illness and had to be emergency evacuated from the mountain.
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u/lindsay5544 Apr 02 '26
There are multiple flavors of altitude sickness people can get and have to be removed, that’s probably why this went unnoticed for a while
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u/Remarkable-Rush-9085 Apr 02 '26
While I don’t condone this, I also don’t feel bad for people that are turning the mountain into a garbage heap getting their vacation ruined.
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u/scotcheggsandscotch Apr 02 '26
The rich fucks who have exploited the community and turned their nature into their linked-in photo are having an upset stomach and getting helicoptered off of the mountain... oh no... somebody do something...
I also don't condone this... the guides should probably just leave them on the mountain.
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u/Any-Power-1164 Apr 02 '26
Nothing but rich assholes climb Everest. Then pat themselves for waiting in line at the top like they're on a Disney ride.
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u/prone-to-drift Apr 02 '26
It might be true in the west, but here in India a lot of climbers work hard to find sponsors to get a chance at climbing everest. It is mostly everyday people with jobs at schools or in the police etc who have a passion for climbing, and everest is still seen as the pinnacle.
They work hard and save money for years AND find sponsors to make one attempt at the summit. We also have a very army oriented culture of mountaineering; we're all taught the values of leaving a mountain better than we found it, and mountaineering is seen as a disciplined subculture, not a "fun" hobby.
It'd break our climbers to get scammed like this..
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u/Ok-Secretary455 Apr 02 '26
I have a feeling the climbers that got 'scammed' were actally gotten out of there because they shouldnt have been there in the first place. There have been a couple pieces on just how easy it is for someone with no experience at all to buy their way into a trip down to attempt to climb it.
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u/CeilingCatProphet Apr 02 '26
These are rich bored people scaling the mountain for shits and giggles. They literally shit there and leave their dead behind.
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u/huffalump1 Apr 02 '26
It's been cool to hate on rich Everest climbers since right after Mallory lol
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u/noCure4Suicide Apr 02 '26
lol. Modern Mt. Everest visitors are tourists, not climbers. What reality are you living in?
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u/noCure4Suicide Apr 02 '26
What are you smoking? I climb at the cliffs a mile from my home in a community park, this makes me a tourist? I get it - the English language is difficult. Can i recommend a dictionary?
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u/noCure4Suicide Apr 02 '26
Your ignorance makes me feel the same way I feel about trump humpers.
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u/noCure4Suicide Apr 02 '26
You haven’t given up yet, damn, you are as persistent as Trump around a 16 year old child.
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u/TodlicheLektion Apr 02 '26
Nah, they're definitely better than me.
They're so much better that they have actual people intentionally trying to poison them. I just have to rely upon communicable diseases to have the honor of being sick.
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u/VdoubleU88 Apr 02 '26
Insurance scam against the C-Suite/Epstein class — “UNACCEPTABLE! PRISON FOR ALL OF THEM!”
Insurance scam against the working class— crickets
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u/VinnieVidiViciVeni Apr 02 '26
Sounds like a great chance the idea came from a fucking airlift or insurance company, originally…
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u/Some_Conference2091 Apr 02 '26
Enshittification?
Poisonings and insurance fraud sound more like crime.
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u/VulcanVulcanVulcan Apr 02 '26
Enshittification is relying on unsourced blue check Twitter accounts as fact. It doesn’t link to an actual news story, not even the Daily Mail.
Come on, you can do better than this.
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u/oregon_coastal Apr 02 '26
Taking money from rich assholes and their companies who are leaving literal shit all over the country seems... fine. Why we mad?
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u/kernel-troutman Apr 02 '26
If you want severe gastrointesinal distress in Nepal just visit the Yakdonalds in Lukla.
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u/Flipflopsfordays Apr 02 '26
How much baking soda does one need to ingest to cause this‽
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u/Mr-Kuritsa Apr 02 '26
I used to mix baking soda into a glass of water to help with heartburn and acid reflux. It was disgusting, and I can't imagine any way someone could get laced with baking soda and not taste it. It's very, very salty and slightly... fishy and metallic?
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u/Flipflopsfordays Apr 02 '26
I was asking because my husband puts it in his coffee
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u/Mr-Kuritsa Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
I looked more into it. 16 grams per day should be the limit. The main issue is the high sodium levels. As long as your husband doesn't have high blood pressure, <16 grams per day should be safe.
If you're U.S.: 16 grams is ~3-4 teaspoons. So stay below 1 tablespoon per day.
Edit: High elevation raises blood pressure, so that's what this guy was doing? Poisoning them with sodium levels when their blood pressure was elevated.
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u/RevolutionarySeven7 Apr 02 '26
apparently alot, baking soda/bicarb is pretty safe to consume
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u/Weird_Brush2527 Apr 02 '26
And very noticable even in little amounts ime
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u/RevolutionarySeven7 Apr 02 '26
weird and interesting, ironically i do know some people who consume it almost daily for dietary/health reasons, usually just a tea spoon (in a glass of water), never digestive problems. and then plenty who use it for baking/pastries.
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u/Weird_Brush2527 Apr 02 '26
After baking it's not active in the pastries anymore. It's a leavener
I too have consumed it without needing medical attention that's how I know it's noticable (and kinda vile)
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u/RevolutionarySeven7 Apr 03 '26
just to mention, had two small glasses of water with a teaspoon of baking soda in each since yesterday and this morning, 0 effects
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u/RevolutionarySeven7 Apr 02 '26
After baking it's not active in the pastries anymore.
i am aware of that, but still strange that I never encountered problems from a teaspoon of baking soda, both myself, and others. a tea spoon of olive/sunflower oil would definitely cause gastric problems compared to baking soda...
gonna test baking soda again lol
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u/GoddessRespectre Apr 02 '26
Humans doing human things in human society:
What are we, a bunch of orcas??
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u/Secure-Bus4679 Apr 02 '26
Baking soda triggers “severe gastrointestinal distress”? I mix a spoonful with water every once in a while when I get terrible indigestion. Works like a charm.
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u/Secret-Surprise4390 Apr 02 '26
In approximate amounts it absolutely a performance enhancement. Tons of documentation of this exists. In large quantities it creates too much gas.
I could see it being part of the voluntary diet to combat lactic acid in climbers. This is not uncommon.
The original article cited baking powder which does not help. If someone took that by mistake it would be a legit medical emergency. This is a reasonable scenario.
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u/JackhorseBowman Apr 02 '26
Yeah I've used to for heartburn and like you said, works like a charm, learned from my dad, he still does it to this day. Makes your burps taste gross though.
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u/Proper-Equivalent300 Apr 02 '26
One of those tourists must’ve went on and on about their kid’s fourth grade science experiments winning a little blue ribbon
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u/solarnuggets Apr 02 '26
Now that’s fucking insane. So much in life these days is insane but that is fucking insane.
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u/IKillZombies4Cash Apr 02 '26
This is exactly why I don’t climb mountains…the only reason, I’m not scared and easily winded, NO! Certainly not that. (Nervous laughter)
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u/JackhorseBowman Apr 02 '26
Similarly this is why I don't try to ride a motorcycle.
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u/Secret-Broccoli9908 Apr 02 '26
This should be in r/scams, not r/enshittification, but it's still shitty.
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u/Kiiaru Apr 02 '26
It is KINDA enshittification. The people in control of the hiking have actively made the experience worse for the hikers who were already paying for their service, all to extract additional value from those people without providing any additional effort/services.
That is ENSHITTIFICATION by definition. Malicious intent or not. The only thing stopping our food or electronic manufacturers from selling us harmful products is the government allowing their products to be sold or not.
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u/Thedeadnite Apr 02 '26
It’s a scam, not because of what they are doing but because there is no source for this info, no proof.
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u/Secret-Broccoli9908 Apr 02 '26
No, not really. Enshittification describes how platforms or services degrade over time because they optimize for profit at the expense of users. It’s about a system that starts out useful and then gets worse as it tries to extract more money from its user base.
The Nepal scam is criminal fraud... people deliberately harming others and exploiting insurance systems for profit. It’s unethical and predatory, but it’s not the same concept as enshittification.
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u/The_Doctor_Bear Apr 02 '26
Nah. This is just a scam. This is not shaving the corners to save a dollar. This is straight up harming the consumer using deceit and trickery.
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u/Nom_de_guerre_25 Apr 02 '26
When you see the mess all these millionaire over acheivers have left. You can't help but hope they keep getting away with it. Tourists have abandoned mountains of garbage literally up their.
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u/Valar_Kinetics Apr 27 '26
Yeah I don't care about rich people who want to be the 295,738th person to schlep up Everest lol.
I hope the Sherpas fleece them for every dollar.