/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14307932]

describe this image in your finest prose or verse.

[Anonymous No.14308130]

>>14307932
Deleezing Sherpa and Guattaray Sherpa observed the slow moving mass of whiteoids before them. At an average price of $40000 per head, the packed ridge held well over 2 million of Nepal's GDP. The sherpas didn't understand why anyone would pay that much just to take a walk in some snow, and they wondered even more how someone could debase himself by paying other people to carry his equipment and by breathing oxygen from a bottle to compensate for his weak lungs

[Anonymous No.14308279]

>>14307932
rich red ramblers roaming ridges

[Anonymous No.14308287]

>>14307932
Big deal. I've seen lines at Didneylan longer than that.

[Anonymous No.14308307]

>>14307932
It's such a weird fucking image, I can't figure out why it bothers me so much.

[Anonymous No.14308315]

>>14307932
White people

[Anonymous No.14308319]

>>14308307
When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed Everest, it was an unprecedented achievement. Now any fuckwit can join the queue to get their photo taken at the top. In one image you can see both what climbing it used to mean, and what it means now.

[Anonymous No.14308320]

>>14307932
The berg
It disintegrated into the air
Yes
YES
the berg is free

[Anonymous No.14308324]

Debord already did a good job

[Anonymous No.14308325]

>>14307932
Scores of men wait their turn to take a picture at the top of the world

[Anonymous No.14308327]

>>14308307
>>14308319
>lots of people doing it means its bad and inauthentic!
fuck off retards

[Anonymous No.14308332]

>>14307932
>Every attempt to achieve anything is pointless
>Even if you achieve your goals which you likely won't
>Even if you do it doesn't matter, you aren't special
>You have never had an original thought in your life, but your ego tricks you into thinking you have
>The same ego that tricks you into thinking your life has meaning
>It wants to preserve itself but it's fundamentally deluded
>If you kill yourself now you will escape further suffering which cannot be necessary because you are always going to die anyway
>It never matters whatever you might end up doing
>The struggle and triumph and glory of life is limited to your own egoic sphere
>Strive towards something greater than yourself, find it filled with people you hate
>Come to hate yourself and the delusional nature of your own goals
>Realise that building the courage and will to take your own life is as heroic as climbing any mountain
>Die pathetically but not much more pathetically than the teeming billions before you
>Sink away from the material world into the past
>Maybe get to see what it all was about, but probably not
>It never could have been any other way

[Anonymous No.14308340]

>>14308332
Wow... holy shit bro... that's... wow, just wow

[Anonymous No.14308341]

>>14308327
it's inauthentic because almost all the clients pay to use bottled O2 and for the sherpas to carry their gear

[Anonymous No.14308346]

>>14307932
And in the end there was nowhere on earth left untouched. No rock unturned. Every corner, every wrinkle in every mountain became just another highway. Highways trafficked from feet to wheels. Wings to sails. The most sacred places on this side of the dream had become the most public places on the other side of a nightmare. There was no longer room for cartesians. No room for explorers. Adventure became a thing you had to purchase tickets for. People stepping on eachother's heads, to reach summits seen in any travel magazine. Nobody cared about the railroad ditches. The culverts on the sides of highways with patches of riparian woods sprouting from their serpentine soils. These things became just landmarks to drive over, on your way to "do something new". Something new, meaning something different than they did yestersay, today done with everyone else. They traded curiosity for narcissism-holiness for convenience. The real hero in the end is not the "climber" as one usually tacks such a name on people so who are so undeserving. The real hero was not even the sherpa. The real hero was that mountain. For standing it. For having the patience to not buckle, to not twist and buck these cowards down it's side all at once.

[Anonymous No.14308352]

>>14308341
Whats the difference. Its more authentic if you suffer through it? Thats just dumb

[Anonymous No.14308355]

Climbing up, will they stop at the top?
Below the clouds, will they return?
The top is the bottom.

[Anonymous No.14308357]

>>14308346
/lit/

[Anonymous No.14308367]

>>14308352
what if you just took a chairlift?

[Anonymous No.14308376]

>>14308346
>For having the patience to not buckle, to not twist and buck these cowards down it's side all at once.
anon, i...

[Anonymous No.14308401]

>>14307932
Thoughts of those in orange;

I'm freezing
Wheezing, barely breathing.
Now I'm here,
Heaving and burdened by a backpack.
Though my wallet feels lighter;
For those sherpa are surely wiser,
Knowing whats best for the money of a would-be miser.

[Anonymous No.14308415]

>>14308327
It just does not look appealing, it's not about authenticity or whatever, I wouldnt want to be trapped in what is essentially a crowd while also being on top of a mountain ridge

[Anonymous No.14308428]

>>14308415
the reason there's a crowd is they're all useless wankers who need perfect weather to make it down alive. if you're less picky about conditions you stand a good chance of having the mountain largely to yourself

[Anonymous No.14308433]

>>14308428
I dont understand the appeal of mountain climbing in the first place tbqh. Those cliff-scaler guys on the other hand, that I get. That's fucking awesome

[Anonymous No.14308434]

>>14308327
/out/ing is about experiencing peace and getting away from people and social pressures
Most people on the "extreme" side of outdoor recreation push themselves to their limits to get to places that are so remote and such a degree of skill and dedication are required to reach such limits that when they get to their mountain top, or their Grand Canyon, or their El Capitan they know that they will be alone or at least in the company of people so dedicated and willing to put in a tremendous effort to get there that they share a spiritual bond.

Most people seek the outdoors because they value authentic human experiences and reject social expectations
People paying up to a hundred thousand dollars to have their fat asses carried up a mountain are the exact type of people outdoor enthusiasts are trying, at extreme lengths, to avoid

But hiking is lame anyway so all those people can burn in normie hell lmao

[Anonymous No.14308439]

I mean the aesthetic of this photo makes it look like le capitalist disney ride, but the climb is still difficult, dangerous, many die doing it still

[Anonymous No.14308456]

>>14308433
its literally just so you can brag about it. its a upper class corporate normie prestige thing.

[Anonymous No.14308467]

>>14308357
>>14308376

[Anonymous No.14308472]

>>14308367
You mean the 'Modern American Route'?

[Anonymous No.14308483]

>>14307932
Man climb big rock
Wee

[Anonymous No.14308504]

>>14308483
>clap

[Anonymous No.14308937]

>>14308433
Even cliff-scaler guys all climb the same stupid shit though it seems.

[Anonymous No.14310231]

>>14308483
Lmfao

[Anonymous No.14310296]

>>14308315
Achieving things

[Anonymous No.14310312]

>>14308346
underrated

[Anonymous No.14310320]

>>14308332
>yet he's still here
yeah, i'm thinking cringe

[Anonymous No.14310347]

>>14307932
"PAKIS could be here", I thought. "I've never been at this altitude before. There could be PAKIS anywhere." The cool wind reminded me how warm I felt in my expensive thermal gear. "I hate PAKIS", I thought. Sweet Dreams Are Made Of These reverberated my entire mountain, making it pulsate even as the oxygen from the tank circulated around my powerful thick lungs and washed away my (merited) fear of minorities at the summit of Chomolungma. "With a sherpa, you can go anywhere you want", I said to myself out loud.

[Anonymous No.14310401]

>>14308352
>playing a difficult game on god-mode
the difficulty is the fucking point

[Anonymous No.14310594]

>>14308307

[Anonymous No.14310672]

>>14307932
Starbucks will soon make a place on the start of the climb.

>>14308327
>>lots of people doing it means its bad and inauthentic!

its just mindless CONSUMERISM with NARCISSM masked as adventurism which makes it the pinnacle of DOUCHEBAGGERY. Most travelfags and triathlees are like this.

[Anonymous No.14311105]

>>14310347
KEK

[Anonymous No.14311297]

>>14310672
How is it different than say religious folk going to churches every week and receiving the Eucharist. If we take pictures of it would that also be inauthentic and consumerist?

[Anonymous No.14311298]

>>14310672
>Going out and actually living life is worse than the people who just stay and shitpost on 4chan all day

[Anonymous No.14311328]

>>14308352
> Its more authentic if you suffer through it? Thats just dumb
Yes.A thing unearned, unpaid for is worthless and hollow.
Training for years, climbing it with little to no help, risking your life and conquering it vs being helicoptered up there to take a selfie.
If you think both things have the same value, you're a hollow human bean.

[Anonymous No.14311331]

>>14310347
>Sweet Dreams Are Made Of These reverberated my entire mountain
lost

[Anonymous No.14311332]

>>14308327
>>lots of people doing it means its bad and inauthentic!
yep

[Anonymous No.14311343]

>>14311297
>How is it different than say religious folk going to churches every week and receiving the Eucharist. If we take pictures of it would that also be inauthentic and consumerist?

they arent snobs about it for starters nor are they claiming uniqueness by doing it.

>>14311298
>Going out and actually living life

codeword for mindless consumerism. #surrogatel4fe

[Anonymous No.14311383]

>>14311343
No one is claiming uniqueness and what makes you the gatekeeper of deciding who is a snob and who isnt

[Anonymous No.14311436]

>>14307932
And the young man seethed, and seethed and seethed. He felt the characteristic heat pangs of anger rise within him as he perused the imageboard and saw the image.
He tried to justify his feelings, as always, by degrading others. "They're weak! Lazy! Look at them relying on technology to accomplish something! Hardly anything at all with that much help!" He realized, at least on a subconscious level, that even with technology, he had achieved nothing and this burned his very soul with a caustic venom.
It was true that these people had degraded their achievement through the use of technology, but they still had something could be referred to as an achievement. He had nothing. And the venom continued to silently consume him well after the thread was closed and the heat of anger melted away.

[Anonymous No.14311737]

>>14308346
Werner Herzog is that you?

[Anonymous No.14311744]

>>14308346

Mmm.

[Anonymous No.14311789]

>>14308433

I enjoy a good mountain hike because it (usually) gets you somewhere you can be alone amidst beauty. Helps with presence of mind.

[Anonymous No.14311800]

>>14308130
>Sherpas Deleezing and Guattaray
clumsy but keked

[Anonymous No.14311812]

A lot of people wanted to climb the mountain, so many that they had to make a line.

[Anonymous No.14311820]

>>14308346

We are in the presence of greatness boys

[Anonymous No.14311928]

>>14307932
The peak was a gray, white-capped tooth higher and more jagged than any other in the mountainous skyline. The climbers stretched along its most agreeable flank in a snaking line of bright and unnatural colors, each patiently awaiting their turn at the summit like patrons at a bank.

[Anonymous No.14312648]

>>14308307
The last few places where you could find true isolation are filling up and becoming a consumer trap to put on a list of other consumer traps you participated in.

[Anonymous No.14313810]

>>14311928
>like patrons at a bank.
Based.