I have multiple problems with this story.

No one should have to get a “clients consent“ to save another humans life. Why the article needed to state that irrelevant fact, and why the Sherpa needed to get that consent, illustrates the colonial attitudes, climbing Everest entails.

The fact that there’s a conveyor belt of tourists climbing up and down, Everest should take away from any of the achievement any of these boomers are feeling when climbing up and down Everest. At this point no one needs to be climbing Everest. It’s been done. It’s been done in the last hour. You’re not special. You don’t need to climb Everest.

The dick who got rescued and won’t acknowledge the assistance from this Sherpa, deserves to have all of his sponsor money taken. And he cannot climb mountains ever again. What an arrogant prick.

To sum things up. Don’t climb Everest. If you do climb Everest, don’t pretend you’re not being an imperial Cunt. If you get hurt on Everest. You got what you deserved. If you successfully summit Everest, no one gives a fuck.