Everest: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Everest: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Climbing Mount Everest has become dangerously popular. John Oliver explains why.
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“nine of them sad” is everything I want from a joke.
Was that joke a jab at the fact that the host said “3 of them American”?
@Suad Mahfouz No. It was a jab at the fact that frat guys are assholes.
He had to sit in those pants for the whole time, poor Jonny got all sweaty.
You realize there is _editing,_ right? There is a CBS video clip at 19:12. They could have stopped taping, then had john put on the pants when the end of the show was only a couple minutes away. Of course, maybe he just likes warm legs.
I feel like the name should be changed to:
“The World’s Tallest Graveyard!”
That’s officially called “Rainbow Valley” and it’s at the top of the mountain, in a small valley on the NW side of the summit, that you can drop or push some climbers in, assuming they are close enough to not require more than 10 m or less pushing/pulling. Check the Wikipedia page on Everest and it’s buried in there somewhere. It should have its own Wikipedia page given that for far too many, that is their mass grave for eternity, as it would cost 200,000 USD and cause more deaths, to retrieve bodies.
Yeah it’s been referred to as the world’s largest open grave.
Well I already had a lot of respect for Sherpas. Always have. Now I have even more respect for them. I can understand the need & willingness for your family. There needs to be a orphan & widows fund for these Sherpas that are killed. Every single climber/tourist needs to pay into it just to go.
*sherpas* … not all “Sherpas” hike or climb (as referenced in this very video)…
“That isn’t the warm embrace of family, that’s one man physically squeezing the White Guilt out of another.” *snaps for truth* That line gave me shivers.
Democrats love hating white people. Democrats was the racist party and still is.
I remember typing how I love the show even though the problems shown are usually American.
And now, I can say I love this episode because it has pointed out one of the bad tourism problems in my country.
@Space Man I appreciate you so much
@Space Man well it lies in our country so it is problem of country.
@Space Man Space isn’t a man, it’s a place!
Space Man Not like Everest is in a country or anything…
Space Man I hope ur being intentionally dense…
Did I just get rickrolled by freaking John Oliver?
What has the world come too
*to
Yes yes you did.
I got rolled twice… should’ve left early ….
He’s done it before, you know.
Is this your first time watching the show? LOL!
I can’t think of a better metaphor for how shitty rich people are than them PUSHING EACH OTHER for pics at the top of the world and them STILL Not being happy. xD
Also throwing their trash on that mountain because their selfie is more important than nature
What kind of budget does this show have…
I LOVE IT!
I guess they still have some dragon money stocked up.
Plus big business daddy has tons to give to his business son…
Sherpas be like, “This is my hundredth climb to the peak.”
@UltimateBreloom that’s not “evolutionary advantages” it’s simply altitude acclimation.
I live in Colorado @ 9,114ft and my I can feel the thickness of the atmosphere in my lungs when I travel to lower areas now after living here for 13 years
I’ll also smoke your flatlander cannabis up in 1 hit.
@Parzival not sure where you heard that you get big money for summiting a mountain, but it actually costs each individual around $170,000.00 and the average accenter has absolutely no experience in mountaineering, less than half have any experience and under 1% are veterans.
Got some bad news about that career in Engineering; turns out hajidid in India can do it for 5 cents to your dollar and the US market for engineers is virtually non existent these days, so get ready with that degree to compete in a field full of hundreds of thousands of other engineers who unlike you, already have a decade of experience and 35 references to land that sole position, same goes for Europe.
@Manored genetic testing has determined that people native to that area are physically adapted to low oxygen. Superhuman? They’re high-altitude X-Men.
@AstronomyToday Acclimatization is only part of it. There are actual genetic advantages. https://youtu.be/elOn5ZYg5fc
And you should pay your sherpas enough to support their families well for at least a generation if they die carrying your luggage. They also deserve mandatory recognition in your photo op.
The Sherpas on Everest are like superhuman climbers. It’s obvious without them all of the yuppies would have zero chance. Sherpas on Everest are some serious, next level badasses!
*sherpas* … not all *sherpas* are “Sherpas” (as referenced in this video)…
yuppies don’t have 11k to spend on a mountain selfie. All the people in this video where older, likely boomers or Gen X.
I ABSOLUTELY DONT MIND BEING RICK ROLLED.
F**KING LOVE THAT SONG
you need 4-8 months of training in a certified school if you are climbing the North side
Everest should be like the NYC marathon, you should be required to complete several smaller mountains before you can claim the big one.
Alena S., wow! That’s just reckless on their part. And negligent on the guide’s part, to some extent. The guides are risking their lives for the client. You’d think they’d want to verify the client’s experience before taking them up. But if there’s money to be made…
Most of them would die at K2
Diego Arriaza Ahumada, I don’t think most of them could ascend far enough to be in danger. 🙂
Wait… I ran the NY marathon it was my first.
That’s a really good idea
I can’t believe I’ve been Rickrolled in 2019. John Oliver you absolute madman.
so unironically this is the Mt. Everest of human stupidity
Thanks to this video. “Everest-shaming” is a thing now.
It’s a good thing
sweetness
It has been for a while now for anyone who enjoys mountaineering.
The highest ever phonecall was made by Snoop..?
Enkay Brilliant
Truth
well if everest is 28,000ft, the average airliner flies at 45,000ft which people place cell calls from all the time and if the international space station is 274,560~334,819ft and astronauts also now have the ability to make ‘Laser cell’ calls…. then as it turns out they weren’t ever close to placing the highest cellphone call in the first place and it’s just another shitty lie rich people tell to their poorer friends to feel superior.
The REAL HEROES of Everest are those Sherpas. Everyone else are posers.
@Breguet de Bollocks still foesnt make them any less posers
Not everyone else. There are professional mountaineers that climb without sherpas who don’t pay 100k just to climb.
@GRAWLIX 19xx . Feel free to think they are “posers”. -Just don’t expect everyone to adapt to your views of the world.
ffs stop engaging the dumb fk troll. It’s too obvious.
Agreed!!
“That is one man literially squeezing the white guilt out of another.”
Amazingly accurate. That dude really wanted to believe that claim as fast as he could so he didn’t have to feel as bad about paying this man to risk himself daily to make his up hill walk possible.
What if the reporter was asian? Would that still be white guilt?
Democrats love hating white people. racist.