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Someone who pays money to suffer at altitude and calls it joy.
means A person who climbs mountains, whether as a skilled expedition sport or as a way of life for those who live among them.
from Built from 'mountain' plus the agent suffix '-eer' (as in 'engineer' or 'musketeer'), which English borrowed from French '-ier/-eer' to mean 'one who does or works with.' The word emerged in the 1700s originally to describe mountain-dwellers and militia fighters from highland regions, only later narrowing to mean someone who climbs peaks for sport — a shift that tracks the rise of mountaineering as a leisure pursuit in the 1800s, once people had enough comfort elsewhere to go looking for discomfort on purpose.
- death zone
- above 8000m, your body is actively dying
- everest traffic
- queues form near the summit like a dmv
- first ascent ego
- mallory died maybe summiting, nobody confirmed return
- real skill
- knowing when to turn back, not pushing on