Teza ogólna brzmi: himalaiści/alpiniści to rozkapryszone, rozpieszczone, egocentryczne, nieodpowiedzialne, cierpiące na ogromne przerosty ambicji i rozdęte ego Piotrusie Pany ( i ich żeńskie odpowiedniczki) - które w celu zaspokojenia swej chorobliwej potrzeby patosu prą po trupach - często wcale nie metaforycznych - do celu. Ich stosunek do wspinania się należy w bardzo wielu wypadkach postrzegać w kategoriach narkotyku od którego są uzależnieni. Jako tacy nadają się oni w zasadzie do detoksu.
Teza druga, szczególna brzmi: uprawiając chorobliwie swą pasję, bardzo często, coraz częściej oszukują oni siebie i innych, korzystając nagminnie ze środku dopingowego jakim jest na dużych wysokościach tlen.
Zainteresowanych problemem odsyłam do podlinkowanych materiałów.

www.thewil(*)that-shook-the-climbing-world/
nautil.us/(*)of-doping-in-mountain-climbing

"In June, 1970, Reinhold Messner and his younger brother Günther Messner, went up the Nanga Parbat, the Ninth highest mountain in the world also known as the Killer Mountain. Both the brothers summitted the mountain but only Reinhold returned, sparking off accusations that he had abandoned Gunther on their way down. Messner, one of the greatest climbers of all time who was the first man to climb all the 14 tallest mountains over 8,000 meters and also the first one to climb Mount Everest without bottled Oxygen, has been dogged by the allegation ever since. Though Reinhold has always maintained that Gunther, 23 at that time, was buried by an avalanche, others on the expedition have always claimed that he abandoned his altitude-sick younger brother so that he could tackle alone the Diamir Face of the mountain. Two other climbers – Max von Kienlin and Hans Sale – who were part of the expedition had claimed that Messner abandoned his brother and actually sacrificed him for his own ambition. In 2005, a team of local Pakistani guides found the remains of Gunther. The controversy has seen over a dozen lawsuits, allegations, counter allegations and many conspiracy theories in the last over three four decades but nobody knows what exactly happened that day on the mountain except of course for Reinhold Messner."

"It was the biggest fall from grace in the mountaineering world. The legend that Oh Eun-sun, one of the top women climbers of all time, had built over the years and the respect she had earned came tumbling down in 2010 when it was revealed that in the race to become the first woman to climb all the fourteen highest peaks she had falsely claimed to have had summitted Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest mountain. The South Korean climber’s Kangchenjunga claim in 2009 had earned her the title of being the first woman to climb all the fourteen mountains taller than 8,000 meters. But when the controversy broke out in 2010 and experts found no convincing photographs of Miss Oh on the summit, she was stripped of the title and the record was passed on to Spanish climber Edurne Pasaban."