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No it’s not.

This is money project.

1. Financial side of his project (sponsors, movies, advertising) is tremendous. This is financial project done mainly for money, while hiding it.

2. Listen to any of his live interviews. Dude is arrogant as hell.

3. Whole Sherpas motiv is virtue signaling (and clever fake shield for do not criticise me) - this was even written about!

4. Check his media presence: i t is massively huge. Done for revenues and attention.

5. Difference between him and Kukuczka original feat is only one: MONEY (Ok maybe two: Nims ego)

6. Check what of him thinks mountain guides, and people say on r/mountaineering/ - disdain and criticism.

Money buys things like that. And is the main cause of it, while being mentioned in fine print only (another sign of fakeness)

T h i s i s s i m p l y m o n e y.

And ego. A lot of ego with arrogance sauce :-(



Yours is a pretty terrible take. Even if what you said is all true (it very well might be) the accomplishment alone (n peaks in x months) is a great feat.

It's as if saying the moon landing wasn't impressive because it was financed by the USA and used as a propaganda tool. "Its simply money"....

The dude climbed FIVE 8k peaks in LESS THAN 2 WEEKS (12 days). That alone is absolutely insane.


Fixed lines, Nims wasn't leading, standard routes/ascents, tons of money and tech used.

Messner could make the same ascents today at 70+ years old given all those advantages. But Messner did it all 40 years ago, leading the climbs himself, without oxygen, and often on new routes/first ascents.


Nope. Difference is:

You spent one month to prepare huge party for your 100 people extended family, just alone and spending 1000€

Vs

You did the same with 200 people crew, while spending 200 000€. It took one day.

What you praise on him is praising money :-/

Edit: He did, while on oxygen, being teleported by heli (sic!) directly between base camps with literally 100+ support team (including on climbs) all WHILE SPENDING 10+ MLN USD ON IT. The other (previous) guys did not.

Please go check and read mountain community opinion on him.


You’ve got to have insane amounts of self confidence to do what he’s done if that’s ego inject into my veins please.


And money. Don’t forget about money injection.

As they say: money buys confidence.


Money doesn't buy fitness, amazing genetics and an iron will.




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